SBIR Phase II: Nanostructured Composite Transparent Electrodes for Touch Panels

SBIR第二阶段：用于触摸屏的纳米结构复合透明电极

• 批准号: 1330932
• 负责人: Whitney Gaynor
• 金额: $ 75万
• 依托单位: Sinovia Technologies
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-08-15 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1330932&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Nanostructured; Composite

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project focuses on bringing the company's transparent conductive films to the touch panel market. The performance, cost, and durability of current touch sensors are limited by shortfalls of the current industry standard material, indium tin oxide (ITO). The company is commercializing a conductive plastic film with superior performance, cost, and durability. This study will cover expansion of its scale manufacturing capabilities, allowing it to provide both pre-patterned and customer-patternable transparent conductive films suitable for use in the market. During SBIR Phase I period, the company migrated its lab-scale prototyping methods to processes compatible with at-scale roll-to-roll manufacture of unpattenered conductive films. While each step of its process was individually scaled to high throughput, production of a final product requires that all of the steps be combined into a single process flow. This Phase II grant will allow it to combine these processes while adding the ability to produce functional circuits in addition to bulk films. It will also allow it to continue pushing its films' performance higher by utilizing new techniques and materials to increase the clarity of its films. Finally, the company will thoroughly characterize the lifetime properties of its final product.The broader impact/commercial impact of this project will be significant, as it will result in a fully designed process by which the company can produce market-ready products. It will also result in functional demonstration touch panels to put into the hands of its customers. At the conclusion of the study the company expects to have secured a design win with a customer and will be in an excellent position to raise operating capital at low risk to its investors so that the company may begin shipping products. As a Silicon Valley materials technology company, the company's success in the touch panel market will help bring part of a major market back to the US that has moved overseas. This SBIR Phase II study will allow it to expand the staff and also support jobs at the US companies whose toll-coating facilities the company uses for its product development and manufacturing.

该小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目的重点是将该公司的透明导电薄膜引入触摸屏市场。当前触摸传感器的性能、成本和耐用性受到当前工业标准材料氧化铟锡（ITO）的不足的限制。该公司正在商业化的导电塑料薄膜具有上级的性能，成本和耐用性。这项研究将扩大其规模制造能力，使其能够提供适用于市场的预图案化和客户可图案化透明导电膜。在SBIR第一阶段期间，该公司将其实验室规模的原型制作方法迁移到与无图案导电膜的大规模卷对卷制造兼容的工艺。虽然其工艺的每个步骤都单独扩展到高吞吐量，但最终产品的生产需要将所有步骤合并到单个工艺流程中。这第二阶段的赠款将使它能够联合收割机这些过程，同时增加了生产功能电路，除了散装电影的能力。这也将使它能够继续推动其电影的性能更高，利用新的技术和材料，以提高其电影的清晰度。最后，该公司将彻底描述其最终产品的寿命特性。该项目的广泛影响/商业影响将是重大的，因为它将导致一个完全设计的过程，该公司可以生产市场就绪的产品。它还将导致功能演示触摸面板投入到客户手中。在研究结束时，该公司预计已获得设计赢得与客户，并将处于一个很好的位置，以提高运营资本在低风险的投资者，使该公司可能开始航运产品。作为一家硅谷材料技术公司，该公司在触摸面板市场的成功将有助于将一个主要市场的一部分带回到已经转移到海外的美国。这项SBIR第二阶段研究将使其能够扩大员工队伍，并支持美国公司的工作，这些公司的收费涂层设施用于其产品开发和制造。