Nettoyage et modification de verre, matière plastique, métal, céramique, caoutchouc par lumière UV
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Surfaces can be cleaned or modified by short wavelength, ultra violett UV light, so that following adhesion, deposition or sticking processes work more effective. It is possible to treat glass, polymer, metal, ceramic, rubber or other materials. For this application mainly
high output low pressure mercury lamps are used.
Such lamps are installed in many types of
illumination equipment from
SenLights.
One important application field is the surface cleaning of glasses and panels during
LCD-Manufacturing.
There is a difference in mechanism between cleaning and modifying process, but both have common good effects for the purpose of enhancing the bonding force and adhesive properties. UV light or also plasma etching have a markedly higher cleaning capability than a wet type cleaning system. The contaminants that you can remove are organic compounds, mainly fat substances. However thick layers cannot be removed using UV light. Therefore, the most effective cleaning can be achieved by removing large amounts of contaminants first with a conventional wet cleaning system and then finish with the photo cleaning process. Rinse with ultra-pure water can proceed the light cleaning step in order to wash off fine dust that can be created under certain circumstances by UV cleaning. This is the latest cleaning technology.
Unlike the plasma processing, the photo modification has the advantage of excellent operability as it allows processing under normal atmosphere. In addition, you can irradiate UV uniformly to even geometrically complex objects by means of arranging lamp shapes or carrier units, so that it is suitable for molded products. It is remarkably effective to engineer plastics allowing a low temperature processing. However the effect depends also on the selected material and adhesive. Under clean conditions the modifying effect last for weeks, but if pollution resumes, the cleaning effect gets lost within shorter time.
After exposure to UV light, the surface of the substrate has been cleaned or modified and the bonding force of adhesives will rise. Also the wettability of the surface changes accordingly. In order to measure the quantitative effect of this surface improvement several methods are used:
Contact angle of a water drop. A method to measure the hydrophilic nature of
a surface is to measure the contact angle of a water drop on the surface.
Enhancement of wetting nature makes the surface energy larger and the contact
angle of the water drop on the surface becomes smaller accordingly.
This method is very accurate and can be automated.
Wettability reagent. A cheaper method is the usage of a wettability agent. You watch
the extension of special liquid reagent on the test surface and compare it
with the extension of reagent on a reference test substrate with a swab.The
index is adjusted to the surface energy value. The results depends on the
experience of the test person.
Usage of cross-cut coatings. An acrylic lacquer is deposited on a test substrate.
Checkered kerfs are made on the coatings. Then a cellophane foil is attached
to the surface and removed. The not exfoliated squares are counted.
The production of highly integrated state of the art products today
requires a new technology applicable to its hyperfine processing. A short
wavelength UV has an excellent modification or cleaning capability for solid
surfaces. The photo surface processing using UV and ozone is nowadays an
indispensable new technology to enhance the product yield of opto-electric
products as well as semiconductor and liquid crystal display elements.
Furthermore, the technology is contributing to the production of general
industrial products such as plastic aquarium sealing as it is capable to
improve the working environment and to promote mass production.
The method can be used as dry processing in normal atmosphere, shows
excellent performance, has multi purpose and diversified applications, low
damage rates and low running costs.
Adhesive force enhancement. This surface improvement is used for various materials like plastics, metals and inorganic compounds. It can be used for many applications e.g before like aquarium tank sealing, sticking or mounting plastic parts or rubbers, before attachment of aluminium foils in micro condensers, mounting of magnetic heads, semiconductor lead frames, etc.
Adhesive property enhancement. Optimum fixing of HD lubricants, lens protecting films, liquid crystal back light diffusion panel, etc.
Coating property enhancement. This effect is used for mud guards, fender frames and air bags in cars, propulsion coils for super conductive linear motor cars, outdoor structures for power facilities, etc.
