A continuous roll-to-roll manufacturing process is a next-generation process for the
environmentally friendly and low-cost mass production of functional printed devices. Unlike …

Most manufactured electrical cables suffer from reductions in their physical, mechanical and
electrical properties. These setbacks are mainly attributed to the improper control of wire …

Register control is essential in the roll-to-roll printing of organic thin-film transistors.
Specifically, microscale accuracy is required in the control of the overlay printing register. To …

In this paper, a robust decentralized control scheme is proposed for web-winding systems.
The control input for each subsystem is divided into two parts, a reference control input and …

Roll-to-roll (R2R) printing systems provide a continuous process of thin, flexible material
(called web) through printing cylinders, where the required patterns are printed on the web …

A roll-to-roll (R2R) manufacturing system has been considered the most suitable candidate
for commercializing flexible electronic devices owing to its large-area and mass-production …

Gadolinium-doped ceria (GDC) is sought-after as an electrolyte layer in solid oxide fuel cells
because of its high ionic conductivity and low treatment temperature. Recently, some studies …

In elastic web winding systems, precise regulation of web tension in each span is critical to
ensure final product quality, and to achieve low cost by reducing the occurrence of web …

There are many important applications in printed electronics and publishing industries that
use the principle of roll-to-roll manufacturing to make printed electronic devices with lower …

Precise estimation of web tension in roll-to-roll manufacturing is critical to ensure product
quality. A vibration-based method to estimate web tension is proposed in this paper. By …