Advancing Pad Printable Solutions with Henkel Materials

Henkel is an industry-leading supplier of printed electronics materials and services. The broad LOCTITE portfolio includes conductive inks and coatings and resistive and dielectric inks. Wireless communication has evolved rapidly over the past few decades and antennas play a fundamental role in wireless communication systems. 5G pad-printable antennas are especially unique to the mobile communication industry and Henkel has developed a range of pad-printable inks that enable direct printing on 3D-shaped surfaces. Pad printing of functional inks can be viewed as an alternative technology to more traditional Laser-Direct-Structuring (LDS), offering an additive manufacturing process that is more environmentally friendly. Henkel has started a technical collaboration with Teca-Print to accelerate our customers' projects. Teca-Print is a Swiss-based world-leading machine and consumables supplier for pad printing. In this presentation, we will discuss pad-printing process parameters and focus on the properties of the LOCTITE portfolio that make these inks unique.