Abstract: A system for engraving a flexographic relief member includes a laser scanning apparatus providing a focused radiation beam. The flexographic relief member includes a laser engraveable flexographic member; a thin engraveable control layer on top of the flexographic member; and wherein the engraveable control layer has an engraving sensitivity lower than the flexographic member.

Abstract: A method of improving conductivity of a metal pattern (18) includes providing a developed silver pattern (14) formed from a photographic silver salt provided in a binder coated on a substrate (12); and selectively heating the silver pattern with electromagnetic radiation.

Abstract: Preparing a flexographic member (60) includes providing a digital image and calculating a relief image based on the digital image. At least one stress-sensitive boundary region (11) adjacent to at least one image feature is identified and the relief image is created on the flexographic member. The depth (18) of at least a portion of a floor region (10) adjacent the at least one image feature is increased to provide a modified floor region.

Abstract: Electronic devices can be prepared by forming a patterned thin film on a suitable receiver substrate. A cyanoacrylate polymer is used as a deposition inhibitor material and applied first as a deposition inhibitor material. The deposition inhibitor material can be patterned to provide selected areas on the receiver substrate where the deposition inhibitor is absent. An inorganic thin film is then deposited on the receiver substrate using a chemical vapor deposition technique only in those areas where the deposition inhibitor material is absent. The cyanoacrylate polymer deposition inhibitor material can be applied by thermal transfer from a donor element to a receiver substrate before a patterned thin film is formed.

Abstract: An apparatus for preparing a flexographic printing member includes a laser for forming a relief image that consists of both fine-featured regions and coarse-featured regions; and leveling a top most surface of at least one of the coarse-featured regions with the laser.

Abstract: A system for engraving a flexographic relief member includes a laser scanning apparatus providing a focused radiation beam. The flexographic relief member includes a laser engravable flexographic member; a thing engravable control layer on top of the flexographic member; and wherein the engravable control layer has an engraving sensitivity lower than the flexographic member.

Abstract: A method for engraving a flexographic relief member includes providing a laser engraveable flexographic member; providing a thin engraveable control layer on top of the laser and engraveable flexographic member; the flexographic relief member comprises the laser engraveable flexographic member and the thin engraveable control layer; the engraveable control layer has an engraving sensitivity lower than the flexographic member; and scanning a radiation beam on the flexographic relief member to engrave the flexographic relief member.

Abstract: A method of preparing a flexographic printing member includes forming a relief image that consists of both fine-featured regions and coarse-featured regions; and leveling a top most surface of at least one of the coarse-featured regions by means of laser engravings.

Abstract: Preparing a flexographic member (60) includes providing a digital image and calculating a relief image based on the digital image. At least one stress-sensitive boundary region (11) adjacent to at least one image feature is identified and the relief image is created on the flexographic member. The depth (18) of at least a portion of a floor region (10) adjacent the at least one image feature is increased to provide a modified floor region.

Abstract: A method is used to make a laser-ablatable element for direct laser engraving that has a laser-ablatable, relief-forming layer that has a relief-image forming surface and a bottom surface. The relief-forming layer can be prepared by applying multiple formulations. Each formulation comprises a coating solvent, a laser-ablatable polymeric binder, and an infrared radiation absorbing compound. The infrared radiation absorbing compound concentration in the resulting sub-layers is different in each adjacent pair of sub-layers so that the concentration is always greater in each pair sub-layer that is closer to the substrate, and the concentration is progressively greater in the sub-layers as they are closer to the substrate after the coating solvent is removed, wherein the multiple sub-layers provide a relief-forming layer so that the sub-layer farthest from the substrate provides a relief-image forming surface.

Abstract: A method of improving conductivity of a metal pattern (18) includes providing a developed silver pattern (14) formed from a photographic silver salt provided in a binder coated on a substrate (12); and selectively heating the silver pattern with electromagnetic radiation.

Abstract: A system for improving conductivity of a metal pattern (18) includes a developed silver pattern (14) formed from a photographic silver salt in a binder coated on a substrate (12); and a device for selectively heating the silver pattern with electromagnetic radiation.

Abstract: An electronic display containing a light source and a color filter set, the color filter set comprising: a green color filter having a green filter layer comprising a first pigment having its maximum absorption at a wavelength from 600 to 700 nm wherein at least 90 volume percent of the first pigment particles have a particle size less than 300 nm, and a second pigment having its maximum absorption at a wavelength from 400 to 500 nm wherein at least 90 volume percent of the second pigment particles have a particle size less than 300 nm, and wherein the green filter layer has a transmittance of 60% or more at a wavelength of 520 nm and of no more than 10% at a wavelength of 480 nm and of no more than 10% at a wavelength of 590 nm; a blue color filter having a blue filter layer; a red color filter having a red filter layer; and wherein the color gamut defined by the electronic display has a % NTSCx,y ratio greater than 88%.

Abstract: Electronic devices can be prepared by forming a patterned thin film on a suitable receiver substrate. A cyanoacrylate polymer is used as a deposition inhibitor material and applied first as a deposition inhibitor material. The deposition inhibitor material can be patterned to provide selected areas on the receiver substrate where the deposition inhibitor is absent. An inorganic thin film is then deposited on the receiver substrate using a chemical vapor deposition technique only in those areas where the deposition inhibitor material is absent. The cyanoacrylate polymer deposition inhibitor material can be applied by thermal transfer from a donor element to a receiver substrate before a patterned thin film is formed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a display comprising, in order, a support, a first patterned conductor, a first level of electrically modulated imaging material, a coextensive common electrode conductor, a second level of electrically modulated imaging material, and a second patterned conductor and a method of imaging the display.

Abstract: An imaging method provides a flexographic printing member used to transfer ink from an image area to a receiver element. This flexographic printing member has a relief image including an image area that is composed of an elastomeric composition that has an elastomeric topmost surface and a relief image floor. The relief image has a plurality of dots within a sub-area of the elastomeric topmost surface wherein each dot has a minimum receiver element contact area. A fraction less than 1 of the plurality of dots, known as (b) dots, have a topmost surface that is undercut below the elastomeric topmost surface. The (b) dots are undercut below the elastomeric topmost surface in a predetermined number and arrangement so that the (b) dots are still able to transfer ink to the receiver element. Each of the remainder of the plurality of dots in the sub-area, known as (a) dots, has a topmost surface that is essentially coincident with the elastomeric topmost surface.

Abstract: A top-emitting OLED device, comprising: one or more OLEDs formed on a substrate; a light-scattering layer formed over the one or more OLEDs; a transparent cover; one or more color filters formed on the transparent cover; a color-conversion material layer formed over the color filters, or formed over or integral with the light-scattering layer; wherein the substrate is aligned and affixed to the transparent cover so that the locations of the color filters and color conversion material correspond to the location of the OLEDs, and the color-conversion material layer, color filters, and the light-scattering layer are between the cover and substrate, and a low-index gap is formed between the light-scattering layer and the color filters, with no light-scattering layer being positioned between the color conversion material layer and the low-index gap, wherein the color-conversion material layer is formed integrally with the light-scattering layer.

Abstract: Preparing a flexographic member (60) includes providing a digital image and calculating a relief image based on the digital image. At least one stress-sensitive boundary region (11) adjacent to at least one image feature is identified and the relief image is created on the flexographic member. The depth (18) of at least a portion of a floor region (10) adjacent the at least one image feature is increased to provide a modified floor region.

Abstract: Preparing a flexographic member (60) includes providing a digital image and calculating a relief image based on the digital image. At least one stress-sensitive boundary region (11) adjacent to at least one image feature is identified and the relief image is created on the flexographic member. The depth (18) of at least a portion of a floor region (10) adjacent the at least one image feature is increased to provide a modified floor region.

Abstract: Preparing a flexographic member (60) includes providing a digital image and calculating a relief image based on the digital image. At least one stress-sensitive boundary region (11) adjacent to at least one image feature is identified and the relief image is created on the flexographic member. The depth (18) of at least a portion of a floor region (10) adjacent the at least one image feature is increased to provide a modified floor region.