Roll-to-Roll is a popular method for volume fabrication on flexible materials; metal, paper, and polymers,including thin glass.
Traditionally nanoimprint lithography (NIL) is derived from a quartz or glass wafer plate-against-plate process technology.
At Stensborg, they have developed our own unique and patented nip moulding process (HoloPrint®), designed for nanoimprinting on transparent and opaque materials. This approach works to avoid costly and undesirable web coatings.
The Roll-to-Roll machine, typically employing several rollers, has various coating techniques; dip coating,knife-over-edge coating, slot-die coating, direct- and micro-gravure coating, inkjet and spray coating.