Abstract: A method for manufacturing an organic electroluminescent display device (OLED), wherein an arrangement of layers is applied to a substrate such that first conductors extend in a first direction as well as in a second direction, while between intersections of the conductors an organic electroluminescent connection has been provided which, under the influence of an electric tension, emits light. The substrate is manufactured from plastic and is provided with a surface structure which forms a boundary for at least a number of the layers to be applied. Also provided is a substrate intended for use in a method for manufacturing an organic electroluminescent display device, wherein the substrate has been manufactured from plastic and is provided with a surface structure which forms a boundary for at least a number of the layers to be applied. Further provided is an organic electroluminescent display device obtained with the method.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an organic electroluminescent display device, wherein an arrangement of layers is applied to a substrate such, that in a first direction, first conductors extend as well as in a second direction, while between the intersections of the conductors an organic electroluminescent connection has been provided which, under the influence of an electric tension, emits light, the substrate being manufactured from plastic and being provided with a surface structure which forms a boundary for at least a number of the layers to be applied. The invention also provides a substrate intended for use in a method according to the invention for manufacturing an organic electroluminescent display device, wherein the substrate has been manufactured from plastic and is provided with a surface structure which forms a boundary for at least a number of the layers to be applied. The invention further provides an organic electroluminescent display device obtained with the method.

Abstract: Method for manufacturing an organic light emitting device or a blank for forming therefrom an organic light emitting device as well as such a OLED or blank, the organic light emitting device having a light emitting area with two opposite first sides and two opposite second sides, the method comprising at least the following steps: providing a substrate; depositing and partly removing a layer of transparent conductive material on the substrate for forming parallel anode lines which extend between the first sides; depositing and partly removing at least one conductive layer for forming contacts which are connected anode lines; wherein a photoresist layer is deposited so that it fully extends over contacts adjacent the at least one second side except for at least one contact position per cathode line, via which an electric contact between a respective cathode line to be formed and a respective contact is established.

Abstract: A method for sterilizing contact lenses included in a moist environment in a closed package, wherein the package is heated, wherein the heating is carried out by introducing the package into a space which is at superatmospheric pressure or which is adjusted to superatmospheric pressure and which is heated with dry hot air. Further, the invention relates to an apparatus for carrying out such a method.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for deposition of material by laser evaporation wherein the employed laser is a continuous or semi-continuous laser. Using such a laser, it is possible to evaporate the target material in a controlled manner from a local pool of liquid or fluidized target material at the target surface. The invention also provides a system for executing said method.

Abstract: A method and apparatus wherein a substrate is provided with a preformatted structure, with structural elements arranged in a matrix, wherein the matrix extends in an X-direction and Y-direction, wherein a processing head is provided, wherein a camera is provided which is connected with the processing head and which comprises at least one series of sensors arranged along a main line, wherein the camera scans the substrate and thereby provides at least one one-dimensional camera signal, wherein, for real-time determining at least the X-position and the Y-position of the structure with respect to the camera, the said main line includes an angle with the X-direction and with the Y-direction, wherein the angle is chosen such that the camera signal contains spatially separated X-position information and Y-position information and that the X-position information and the Y-position information can be separated from the sensor signal with the aid of signal processing.

Abstract: A method for passivating at least a part of a surface of a semiconductor substrate, wherein at least one layer comprising at least one SiOx layer is realized on said part of the substrate surface by: —placing the substrate (1) in a process chamber (5); —maintaining the pressure in the process chamber (5) at a relatively low value; —maintaining the substrate (1) at a specific substrate treatment temperature; —generating a plasma (P) by means of at least one plasma source (3) mounted on the process chamber (5) at a specific distance (L) from the substrate surface; —contacting at least a part of the plasma (P) generated by each source (3) with the said part of the substrate surface; and —supplying at least one precursor suitable for SiOx realization to the said part of the plasma (P); wherein at least the at least one layer realized on the substrate (1) in subjected to a temperature treatment in a gas environment.

Abstract: An injection molding apparatus provided with a central control and with a screw which extends in a cylinder, which cylinder is provided with a filing opening and with a nozzle, the screw being drivingly connected with two controllable electric motors such that a movement in rotational and/or axial sense can be imposed on the screw, the driving connection comprising a number of cylindrical planetary rollers accommodated for rotation in a planetary cage such that the planetary rollers can be engaged from a space located radially outside the planetary cage and a space located radially within the planetary cage, the planetary cage being connected to the screw in a manner secured against rotation, while a first drive part connected with a rotor of the first electric motor, is provided with a first engaging surface facing radially inward which engages the planetary rollers from the space located radially outside the planetary cage, while a second drive part, connected with a rotor of the second electric motor is pr

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a color filter and/or a black matrix, wherein a liquid is deposited on a substrate with the aid of an inkjet printhead, wherein the position of the liquid deposition is determined in that a matrix structure of luminous elements is arranged under the substrate, wherein one or a group of luminous elements of the matrix of luminous elements is switched on, so that they light up, wherein the position of the luminous element or the group of luminous elements is observed, and wherein the position of the liquid deposition is determined depending on the observed position of the at least one luminous element or the group of luminous elements. In addition, the invention relates to an apparatus for carrying out the method and to a color filter and/or black matrix obtained with the aid of such a method utilizing such an apparatus.

Abstract: A method and apparatus wherein a substrate is provided with a preformatted structure, with structural elements arranged in a matrix, wherein the matrix extends in an X-direction and Y-direction, wherein a processing head is provided, wherein a camera is provided which is connected with the processing head and which comprises at least one series of sensors arranged along a main line, wherein the camera scans the substrate and thereby provides at least one one-dimensional camera signal, wherein, for real-time determining at least the X-position and the Y-position of the structure with respect to the camera, the said main line includes an angle with the X-direction and with the Y-direction, wherein the angle is chosen such that the camera signal contains spatially separated X-position information and Y-position information and that the X-position information and the Y-position information can be separated from the sensor signal with the aid of signal processing.

Abstract: Method for manufacturing a light emitting device, the light emitting device having a light emitting area, the method comprising at least the following steps: —providing a substrate; —providing at least one first electrode on the substrate; —forming first contacts which are connected to the at least one first electrode; —forming second contacts which are arranged for contacting at least one second electrode; —forming a conductive interconnection between the first and the second contacts before the at least one second electrode is formed; —after having applied the conductive layer for forming the at least one second electrode on the substrate removing the conductive interconnection between the first and second contacts.

Abstract: A method wherein a substrate is provided, wherein, in a scanning step, structures already applied to the substrate are detected by at least one scanning provision of a processing head, wherein the processing head is provided with at least one lighting provision, which lighting provision locally lights the applied lacquer structure in a lighting step by using the information obtained with the scanning step. Further, the invention discloses an apparatus for carrying out the method is described, which apparatus is provided with a processing head which is movable relative to a substrate carrier, wherein the processing head comprises at least one scanning provision and at least one lighting provision.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to an in-line process for making a thin film electronic device on a substrate. The process includes depositing a structurable layer onto a substrate and depositing photoresist material onto the structurable layer in a first pattern. The process also includes developing the photoresist material, etching the structurable layer in areas uncovered by the photoresist material and removing the remaining photoresist material. The process may be performed without intermediate exposure of the substrate to ambient air.

Abstract: An assembly for processing substrates, which processing comprises a vacuum deposition process, such as, for instance, sputtering, CVD or PECVD, which vacuum deposition process is carried out in at least one process chamber, the assembly being provided with a conveying device for moving the substrates from a vacuum lock to a process chamber, the conveying device, which extends in a vacuum space, permitting a continuous conveyance of a substrate adjacent the at least one process chamber and permitting an intermittent conveyance adjacent at least the at least one vacuum lock.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for applying a coating on a substrate, wherein, opposite the substrate, at least two expanding thermal plasma (ETP) sources are arranged which provide the substrate with a coating, wherein the substrate is located in a process room in which the pressure is lower than the pressure, prevailing in the ETP sources, of a carrier gas which is introduced into the process room via the sources and which forms the expanding plasma, wherein the coating provided by each source has a layer thickness according to a certain deposition profile, for instance a Gaussian deposition profile, and wherein different process parameters are chosen such that, after the coating process, the addition of the deposition profiles results in a substantially uniform layer thickness of the coating on a relevant part of the substrate. Preferably, the distance between sources producing plasma at the same time is chosen and/or settable such that the expanding plasmas substantially do not influence each other.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a functional layer includes introducing a substrate into a process chamber; generating a plasma by a DC plasma cascade source; depositing a first deposition material on the substrate under the influence of the plasma. At the same time, a second deposition material is applied to the substrate with a second deposition process. The functional layer has no catalytic function.

Abstract: Apparatus for performing at least one processing operation on a substrate, the apparatus being provided with at least one process chamber and a vacuum lock for the purposes of placing the substrate from the surroundings into a process chamber without the reduced pressure in the respective process chamber being lost, the vacuum lock comprising a vacuum chamber which is bounded by a number of walls and to which a vacuum pump is connected, while in one of the walls at least one supply opening is provided, and for the purpose of the or each process chamber in one of the walls a process chamber opening belonging to a respective process chamber is provided, the at least one supply opening being externally closable with an outer cover and being closable from the vacuum chamber with an inner cover. Further disclosed is an assembly of such an apparatus with a transport device for supplying substrates to a supply opening of the vacuum lock and removing same.

Abstract: A method for treating a surface of at least one substrate, wherein the at least one substrate is placed in a process chamber, wherein the pressure in the process chamber is relatively low, wherein a plasma is generated by at least one plasma source, wherein, during the treatment, at least one plasma source (3) and/or at least one optionally provided treatment fluid supply source is moved relative to the substrate surface. The invention further provides an apparatus for treating a surface of at least one substrate, wherein the apparatus is provided with a process chamber and at least one plasma source, wherein the at least one plasma source (3) and/or at least one optionally provided treatment fluid supply source is movably arranged.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an organic electroluminescent display device, wherein an arrangement of layers is applied to a substrate such, that in a first direction, first conductors extend as well as in a second direction, while between the intersections of the conductors an organic electroluminescent connection has been provided which, under the influence of an electric tension, emits light, the substrate being manufactured from plastic and being provided with a surface structure which forms a boundary for at least a number of the layers to be applied. The invention also provides a substrate intended for use in a method according to the invention for manufacturing an organic electroluminescent display device, wherein the substrate has been manufactured from plastic and is provided with a surface structure which forms a boundary for at least a number of the layers to be applied. The invention further provides an organic electroluminescent display device obtained with the method.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a stamper for producing optical disks, comprising the application of a photoresist to a stamper plate and the structuring of the applied photoresist film. The structuring comprises the successive exposure, development and heating of the photoresist film. The developed photoresist film is subjected to an additional exposure in the deep UV range prior to the final heat treatment. The invention also relates to a stamper and to an optical disk obtained using the stamper.