PFI:AIR - RA: Commercializing a Chem Sensitive FET(CS-FET) Wireless Gas Detection Platform in an Industry/University Ecosystem

PFI:AIR - RA：在工业/大学生态系统中商业化化学敏感 FET (CS-FET) 无线气体检测平台

• 批准号: 1434067
• 负责人: Ali Javey
• 金额: $ 68.33万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-08-15 至 2018-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1434067&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PFI; AIR; RA; Commercializing; Chem

This PFI: AIR Research Alliance project focuses on the translation and transfer of multi-gas sensing technologies derived from the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center expertise and discoveries in microfabricated chemical-sensitive field effect transistors (CS-FETs). The CS-FET is important because it enables new miniature, low power, low cost devices for much broader deployments of wireless emergency leak detection & alarm systems to make the oil & gas industry more safe, and eventual integration into mobile consumer devices to allow rapid detection of environmental hazards for the mass market. The technology provides ultra-miniaturization and power reduction sufficient for microbattery-powered wireless gas monitoring. Sensing capabilities will facilitate industrial and consumer safety and health applications. The features will provide compelling commercial advantages in mobility, multiple gas targeting, and suitability for wireless sensor network integration when compared to the leading competing handheld gas sensors available in this market space. Educational benefits will accrue to university of California Graduate student researchers who gain entrepreneurial and technology translation experience through close collaboration with industrial sponsors in more phases of research commercialization than are currently observed in arms-length industry sponsored university research projects. This project addresses several technology gaps in translation from research discovery to commercial application. The batch fabricated gas sensor itself utilizes economic semiconductor processes to create a novel low cost, low power transistor that can be chemically functionalized to multiple gas species on a single substrate. The program will additionally support aggressive miniaturization of ultra low-power wireless communications platforms built on new wireless network standards (such as Wireless HART) established for applications such as this. The boundary spanning marriage of university research-driven sensing and communications technology with industry technologists targeting real world problems will validate the innovation ecosystem that is the subject of this program.The innovation ecosystem that will be created includes oil & gas industry leader Chevron Corporation who provides application & operations knowledge and brings unmet product needs to the ecosystem as eventual customer/end user; Murata Manufacturing Corporation, a multinational leader in electronic & wireless components and subsystems; Rosemount, a business unit of Emerson, a market leader in industrial automation and major supplier to Oil & Gas and other targeted industries; and NanoShift, a microfabrication contracting and consulting company with presence inside the University recharge laboratories where the CS-FET is being developed. The economic impact is expected to be development and manufacturing jobs as well as employment of high technology systems and field service personnel. Some of these impacts will begin to be realized in the 5-year timeframe because of the active collaborative co-development ecosystem that will reduce discovery-to-commercial timeframes. The scale of investment in clean air technologies is illustrated in current Chevron forecasts of up to 1,000 jobs to implement a single facility technology modernization project at their Richmond, California refinery (just one of 143 U.S. commercial oil & gas refineries) some of which is undertaken for emissions reduction.

这个PFI：空气研究联盟项目专注于多种气体传感技术的转化和转让，这些技术来源于伯克利传感器和执行器中心在微细制造的化学敏感场效应晶体管(CS-FET)方面的专业知识和发现。CS-FET之所以重要，是因为它使新的微型、低功耗、低成本设备能够更广泛地部署无线紧急泄漏检测和放大报警系统，从而使石油和天然气行业更加安全，并最终集成到移动消费设备中，以便快速检测大众市场的环境危害。该技术为微电池供电的无线气体监测提供了足够的超小型化和低功耗。传感功能将促进工业和消费者的安全和健康应用。与市场上领先的竞争对手手持式气体传感器相比，这些功能将在移动性、多种气体目标定位以及无线传感器网络集成方面提供引人注目的商业优势。加州大学研究生研究人员将获得教育收益，他们通过与工业赞助商密切合作，在更多的研究商业化阶段获得创业和技术翻译经验，而不是目前观察到的与工业赞助的大学研究项目保持距离的情况。该项目解决了从研究发现到商业应用转化过程中的几个技术差距。批量制造的气体传感器本身利用经济的半导体工艺来创建一种新型的低成本、低功率晶体管，该晶体管可以在单个衬底上对多种气体物种进行化学功能化。该计划还将支持基于新的无线网络标准(如无线HART)的超低功耗无线通信平台的积极小型化，这些标准是为此类应用而建立的。大学研究驱动的传感和通信技术与针对现实世界问题的行业技术专家的跨界联姻，将验证作为该项目主题的创新生态系统。将创建的创新生态系统包括油气行业领军企业雪佛龙公司(Chevron Corporation)，该公司提供应用和运营知识，并将未满足的产品需求作为最终客户/最终用户带到生态系统；村田制造公司(Murata Manufacturing Corporation)，电子与电力无线元件和子系统的跨国领先企业；罗斯蒙特(Rosemount)，艾默生的业务部门；艾默生是工业自动化的市场领先者，也是石油天然气和其他目标行业的主要供应商；和NanoShift，一家微制造合同和咨询公司，在正在开发CS-FET的大学充电实验室内开展业务。预计经济影响将是开发和制造工作以及雇用高技术系统和外勤服务人员。其中一些影响将在5年内开始实现，因为积极的协作共同开发生态系统将缩短从发现到商业的时间框架。对清洁空气技术的投资规模，从雪佛龙目前的预测中可见一斑，即在其位于加利福尼亚州里士满的炼油厂(只是美国143家商业油气炼油厂之一)实施单一设施技术现代化项目时，将创造多达1000个工作岗位，其中一些炼油厂是为了减排。