Prototype Business
Tianma Japan offers high reliability and quality products that utilizes own LCD manufacturing capability/know-hows, provides various type of film deposition, patterning and glass cutting, and can be a partner who can cooperate in the development of new technologies and new products in material, processing, machine manufacturers and research institutes.
Feature of prototype
| • Integrated process (deposition, patterning, cutting) | 
| • Various metal materials, inorganic insulating film materials, and organic insulating film materials are available | 
| • Support small-quantity level trial production to mass production. | 
| • Support design such as CAD works. | 
| • Support the production of products not only LCD and the contract processing of prototypes using LCD manufacturing technology, equipment, and know-how. | 
| • Thick Cu wiring processing with Cu plating is available.  | 
| • Measurement such as thickness of layer for samples is an option. Please let us know. | 
| • Mounting IC, assembling FPC to glass are an option. Please let us know. | 
| • Reliability test is an option. Please let us know. | 
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Available process
■Substrate processing *Process based on 550x660mm and thickness of glass:0.5mm or 0.7mm.
| Process | Equipment | Remarks | |
| Cleaning | UV/Chemical/Highpressure/Ultrasonic/Pure water | 
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| Deposition | Metal | Sputter | AlNd, MoNb, ITO, Cr, Cu, etc. | 
| Insulator (inorganic) | P-CVD * | SiNx, SiOx, etc. | |
| Insulator (organic) | Spin coater | Acrylic resin, Polyimide resin | |
| Semiconductor | P-CVD, Sputter | a-Si, InGaZnO₄ | |
| Patterning Photolithography | Coating resist | Spin coater | |
| Exposure 
 *Tianma Japan can support design | Aligner | Processing ability≥4μm | |
| Stepper | Processing ability≥4μm | ||
| Proximity | Processing ability≥8μm | ||
| Development | Development | ||
| Etching | Dry etching | SiOx, SiNx, Cr | |
| Wet etching | AlNd, MoNb, ITO, Cu, Ag | ||
| Stripping | Amine based treatment | ||
| High temperature annealing(bake) | Hot air circulation | O2 concentration can be adjusted by N2 | |
*Please refer to the following table for the thickness of each material.
*Pegarding P-CVD, film formation is possible even on small sized substrates and silicon wafers.
| CVD equipment slot | CVD equipment | ITO sputter | 
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| Photolithography equipment slot | Stepper | Dry etching equipment | 
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Table1:Deposition material, Thickness, Line width, Resistance
 Below is available type of material, thickness.
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 | Type | Thickness | Minimum line width / Spacing(μm) | Ratio value | Remark | 
| Wiring/ | AL alloy | 30~500 | 4/5 | 5 | With Mo Alloy lamination | 
| Mo alloy | 30~300 | 4/4.5 | 16 | ||
| ITO (Transparent conductive) | 40~150 | 4/5 | 165~800 | ||
| Cr | 30~50 | 4/4 | 20 | ||
| Cu | 30~200 | 4/9 | 3 | 
Thickness, line width and spacing is just guideline.
Measurement such as thickness of layer for samples is an option. Please let us know.
Table2:Material, Thickness, Line width
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 | Type | Thickness | Minimum line width / Spacing(μm) | Remark | 
| Insulator | SiNx | 50~1000 | 5 | Contact hole formation available | 
| SiOx | 50~200 | 5 | ||
| Acrylic resin | 1500~25000 | 10 | ||
| Polyimide resin | 100~10000 | 10 | ||
| a-Si | 10~250 | 5 | 
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| InGaZnO₄ | 30~200 | 5 | 
Thickness, line width and spacing is just guideline. If you have request, please let us know.
Measurement such as thickness of layer for samples is an option. Please let us know.
■Post-process
| Available contents | Equipment | Remark | 
| Sealing | Dispensing | Seal width:0.5~2mm level | 
| ODF | ODF equipment | Alignment level:±6μm | 
| Thermosetting Seal material | Hot air circulation | |
| Slimming | Chemical etching(outsource) | Up to 0.2t on one side | 
| Cutting | Regular cutting machine Free form cutting machine | tolerance:±0.3mm Please ask the cutting size and free form shape. | 
| Injecting liquid into the cell | Injection machine | |
| Seal the injection hole (remove excess liquid, apply sealing material, and UV cure) | Sealing Equipment UV irradiation equipment | |
| Polishing edge | Polishing machine | |
| Cleaning | Neutral detergent & Pure water cleaning | 
*Orientation processing (alignment film printing, rubbing (photoalignment), etc is not available.
■Bonding
| Available contents | Equipment | Remark | 
| Bonding | Film bonding device machine | Available size (middle size) Available size (large size) | 
| Sensor & Touch panel bonding | Includes vacuum bonding UV curing treatment by OCR | Available size 87x142~325x490mm | 
| OCA bonding | ||
| Touch panel bonding to LCD module | Includes vacuum bonding UV curing treatment by OCR | |
| OCA bonding | ||
| Adhesive bonding | 
| Film bonding device machine | Vacuum bonding equipment | 
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■Plated wiring board processing
  The following plated wiring processing is available.
  *Processing based on 550x660mm 0.5/0.7t glass substrates is available.
| Film type | Available film thickness and line width [μm] | Remark | 
| Cu plating thickness | 2~12 | Formed on seed Cu/Ti | 
| Polyimide layer thickness | 6~15 | 
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| Cu plating: Minimum line width/spacing | 5/5 | Varies depending on Cu film thickness | 
| Contact Hole Diameter | >10 | Varies depending on polyimide film thickness | 
| Au/Ni plating thickness | standard 0.05/3 | 
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Case of product 1: LCD materials evaluation
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Tianma Japan offers the substrate for evaluation of Liquid Cristal , Polyimide materials.
Case of product 2: OLED materials evaluation
|  Offering the substrate for OLED materials. |  Tianma Japan Sample image | 
Case of product 3: ACF material evaluation
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Tianma Japan supports test samples for evaluation ACF materials.



