CAREER: Print and Fold Optical Instruments

职业：打印和折叠光学仪器

• 批准号: 1453190
• 负责人: Manu Prakash
• 金额: $ 53.44万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-02-01 至 2020-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1453190&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Print; Fold; Optical; Instruments

PI: Prakash, ManuProposal: 1453190This proposal is rooted in leveraging diverse scientific fields, creating a new approach for large-scale roll-to-roll manufacturing of optical instruments for a global need of optical instruments in biosciences. This research is transformative because it will create, for the first time, the ability to mass manufacture optical instruments in a scalable and cost effective approach. This methodology of monolithic fabrication of optical instruments is unique and has significant implications in field microscopy, low-cost disease diagnostics, environmental field biology and climate monitoring. The educational and outreach component of this project includes K-12 education, international outreach in India and Thailand, and mentoring of high school and undergraduate students. The central objective is to develop a new fabrication process for engineering low-cost optical components and new assembly protocol for engineer miniature imaging devices with high throughput and low cost. This l involves printing-based microfabrication and paper folding (like in origami) for components assembling. The research plan is based on the PI's work in origami optics, where low cost microscopes can be fabricated by folding cardboard and installing low cost plastic lenses. This is an exciting and compelling new direction for building microscopes with significant potential for impacting the developing world. The research here seeks to leverage this design to improve manufacturing processes. The approach for rapid prototyping of lenses is very innovative and if lenses of sufficient quality can be produced, this could have substantial impact. This award is co-funded by the Biophotonics program (CBET) in the Engineering Directorate and the IDBR program (Instrument Development for Biological Research) in the BIO Directorate.

主要研究者：普拉卡什，马努建议：1453190该提案植根于利用不同的科学领域，为生物科学中光学仪器的全球需求创造了大规模卷对卷制造光学仪器的新方法。这项研究是变革性的，因为它将首次创造以可扩展和具有成本效益的方法大规模制造光学仪器的能力。这种单片制造光学仪器的方法是独特的，并在现场显微镜，低成本的疾病诊断，环境现场生物学和气候监测具有重要意义。 该项目的教育和推广部分包括K-12教育、在印度和泰国的国际推广以及对高中和本科生的指导。中心目标是开发一种新的制造工艺，工程低成本的光学元件和新的组装协议，工程微型成像设备具有高吞吐量和低成本。这涉及到基于印刷的微加工和折纸（如折纸）的组件组装。该研究计划是基于PI在折纸光学方面的工作，其中低成本的显微镜可以通过折叠纸板和安装低成本的塑料透镜来制造。这是一个令人兴奋和引人注目的新方向，用于构建具有影响发展中国家的巨大潜力的显微镜。这里的研究旨在利用这种设计来改进制造工艺。镜片的快速原型制作方法是非常创新的，如果能够生产出足够质量的镜片，这可能会产生重大影响。该奖项由工程理事会的生物光子学计划（CBET）和BIO理事会的IDBR计划（生物研究仪器开发）共同资助。