Photonic curing is the high-temperature thermal processing of a thin film using pulsed light from a flashlamp.
generally increase exponentially with temperature (i.e. they obey the Arrhenius equation), this process allows materials to be cured much more rapidly than with an oven.
Because of the intensity and short duration of the flashlamp pulse, extreme thermal gradients can occur in the object of interest.
[3][6] The maturing complexity of modern printed electronics for customer applications demands high throughput manufacturing and improved device function.
Photonic curing is similar to Pulse Thermal Processing, developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in which a plasma arc lamp is used.