CERADROP, a MGI Group company, has supplied Los Alamos National Laboratory with CeraPrinter F-Serie, one of its state-of-the-art platforms.
 
“The Los Alamos National Laboratory, inspired and driven by Richard P. Feynman, fosters, deploys and delivers innovation,” said Tim H. Luong, national sales manager at CERADROP. “CERADROP has provided such a prestigious laboratory with our cutting-edge equipment for advanced R&D goals to address the most challenging R&D problems. CERADROP expertise is focused on design and manufacturing of advanced systems for printed electronics and smart 3D printing. Providing our customers with such an all-in-one tool for various functional materials deposition we confirm our strong knowledge based on materials science.
 
“We released around 50 installations all over the world, offering the users flexible digital printing solutions permitting to overcome any challenge in complex functional devices design and print,” Luong added. “Besides our innovative approach in the hardware, the CERADROP team provides high quality training and maintenance support based on strong care about the customers.” 
 
The CERADROP instrument is currently operating in the Chemical Microscopy Center, as part of the Physical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (C-PCS) group led by Group Leader Dr. Kirk Rector.
 
“C-PCS addresses national and international problems by exploiting the measurement and diagnostic power of light, which is the fastest clock and the smallest ruler,” said Dr. Rector. “We work with a diverse range of customers to execute research projects that span basic R&D and device creation through application and deployment of systems and methods for applied missions. Within this group are teams focusing on Nanotechnology and Advanced Spectroscopy, Remote Sensing Applications, Chemistry for Biomedical Applications, Thermal Kinetics and Dynamics of Materials, Terrestrial, Atmospheric, and Space Science. 
 
According to Dr. Rector, “We have an ongoing need for micro optics and material fabrication. We selected CERADROP’s F-Serie chemical deposition system that will provide this capability. The combination of inkjet and Aerosol Jet on a single platform enables us to deposit a wide variety of materials.”
 
Dr. Kristy Nowak-Lovato, one of the principal investigators in the group, is the lead scientist of the CERADROP instrument.
 
“Now that we are using the system, we have become even more impressed with the high quality and precision of the hardware used in the system was well as the intuitiveness and integration of the software involved,” said Dr. Nowak-Lovato. “We believe that we can use this system to produce custom materials for a wide variety of customers for years to come. In addition, CERADROP was a pleasure to work with for this purchase.”