Research Laboratory Coater (RLC)
The creative starting point where films can be made using your materials and inks through a wide choice of deposition techniques.
Research Laboratory Coater (RLC)
The Research Laboratory Coater (RLC) is the creative starting point where films can be made using your materials and inks through a wide choice of deposition techniques (slot-die, flexo, knife, bar, etc.). It is a turn-key system starting from the simple single axis slot-die coating set-up where functionality and complexity can be gradually added.
The RLC has a small foot print and present an open platform that is easily adaptable to all the great experiments that have not been carried out yet. You can fit them almost everywhere in the lab, in the fume cupboard, on the bench and in the glovebox.
We offer a broad range of printing and slot-die coating machinery and equipment from the low budget small footprint coating systems to the large manufacturing systems for printed functional materials such as solar cells, Perovskite, OPV, PSC, fuel cells, printed batteries, Li-ion electrodes, transistors, LEDs, sensors and much more.
Key Features
Turn Key System
Side Operation and Easily Expandable
Coating/Printing Area:
Standard: 100 mm x 280 mm (W x L)
Wide: 160 mm x 280 mm (W x L)Free Software for PC Control
Small Laboratory Footprint:
Option for: Slot-die, Knife, Flexo and Bar Coating
Glove box approved
CE Certified - CSA/UL Compliant
All RLC Come Equipped With:
Single Axis Motion Controller (fwd/rev)
Touch Screen and Buttons for Unit Operation
Mount for Coating and Printing Units
Heated Base Plate (Up to 90 °C)
Software Control
Studies and Publications Leveraging the RLC
Room temperature slot-die coated perovskite layer modified with sulfonyl-γ-AApeptide for high performance perovskite solar devices by Seid Yimer Abate, Ziqi Yang, Surabhi Jha, Guorong Ma, Zhongliang Ouyang, Haixin Zhang, Shafi Muhammad, Nihar Pradhan, Xiaodan Gu, Derek Patton, Kun Wang, Dawen Li, Jianfeng Cai and Qilin Dai
High-Performance Perovskite Single-Junction and Textured Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells via Slot-Die-Coating by Anand S. Subbiah, Furkan H. Isikgor, Calvyn T. Howells, Michele De Bastiani, Jiang Liu, Erkan Aydin, Francesco Furlan, Thomas G. Allen, Fuzong Xu, Shynggys Zhumagali, Sjoerd Hoogland, Edward H. Sargent, Iain McCulloch and Stefaan De Wolf
Components for the RLC Platform
Control of Coating/Printing Position
The adjustment of the coating/printing position can either be performed manually using adjustment knobs or through motors that are controlled using software.
Base Plate
The Research Laboratory Coater unit has an integrated hot plate that allows for easy drying of the processed thin films directly on the unit. It can be equipped with standard hot plate (up to 90 °C) or high temperature hot plate (up to 140 °C) or Heated vacuum chuck (up to 90 °C).
Slot-die Heads
The infintiyPV slot-die heads are engineered with precision and composition in mind, allowing for consistent and uniform coating thickness, resulting in high-quality end products. Whether you are working with batteries, printed solar cells, OLEDs, sensors, or other thin-film technology, our slot-die heads are versatile and can accommodate a wide range of materials and processes. We offer slot-die heads from the very small to the very large and the slot-die heads are available in different materials: Stainless steel, Titanium and PEEK, suiting the different needs of chemistry, weight, and thermal latency.
Pump Systems
The syringe, gear and screwpumps from infinityPV are designed to be an integrated part of the LR2RC platform. All pumps come with touch screen for easy use and ink flow configuration. They all offer accurate and smooth ink delivery for your research or production. You can combine several pumps to perform automated gradient and/or dilution experiments. With our free infinityPV software you can rapidly set up the very simple or the very complex experiments.
Customize Your Own RLC
Create your own LR2RC platform with our customizer.
Choose the options that suit your needs.
Videos
RLC Wide
RLC 3DPrint with Heated Vacuum Chuck
The RLC Loan Unit - How to Unbox, Install, Operate and Rebox
RLC 3DPrint - Slot-Die Coating
Flexo Printing with the Research Laboratory Coater (RLC)
Tool Library for RLC 3DPrint
Printed Batteries
How To Print Solar Cells With The Research Laboratory Coater (RLC)
RLC 3DPrint - The next BIG thing in coating and printing!
Printing Perovskite on Flexible Substrate
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