Nano-OPS Printer for High Rate Nano-Manufacturing and Support Equipment

用于高速纳米制造和支持设备的 Nano-OPS 打印机

• 批准号: EP/R025304/1
• 负责人: S Silva
• 金额: $ 197.99万
• 依托单位: University of Surrey
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FR025304%2F1
• 关键词: Nano; OPS; Printer; Rate; Manufacturing

The Internet is expanding beyond the traditional computing and communications devices that we use daily to include any physical object in our environment. This expansion is known as the IoT. Next generation mobile communications networks will allow sensors attached to any object to share information about its local environment over the Internet. These sensors are being developed and initial versions that have been deployed are already making in-roads into retail, health-care, environmental and security monitoring. With large numbers of sensors in place, they enable a detailed understanding of our environment, which allows better monitoring and new types of control for higher living standards.The IoT has the capacity to revolutionise individual lives, physical infrastructure, and the delivery of services at the global level. With this comes an estimated total potential economic impact of $3.9 to $11.1 trillion per year by 2025. However, to enable this, the cost of basic hardware must significantly decrease and an order of magnitude reduction in costs over conventional fabrication processes must be achieved [McKinsey, 2015]. Nanotechnology enables this cost reduction. Furthermore, the reduced dimensions render the technology unobtrusive and less energy intensive for both their device fabrication and operation. But, thus far a significant bottleneck has been the lack of a high-throughput and reliable nano-fabrication capabilities that render the processes suitable for scale-up and ultimately manufacture. The key technical challenge is to be able to fabricate devices at small enough geometry, in a highly repeatable manner, over very large area, using inexpensive processing, and can be scaled-up without loosing the performance advantages in the fabrication of the device systems.The IoT will have a revolutionary role in defining next generation engineering and services. Our objective is to position the United Kingdom in a leadership position to define this future. To do this we propose to purchase a nano-manufacturing research tool that will enable us to pull-together the strongest possible team of users, designers and engineers to work as a team to produce multifunctional novel devices and systems via innovative fabrication research. The tool will help develop a nano-fabrication capability, which provides an inexpensive, high throughput, high-performance platform integrating sensors, actuators, communication, energy capture and storage functions with low power circuits. The platform will enable the design and prototyping a large variety of devices and sensors. Our project partners and supporters (some still to be connected) will employ these new scale-up capabilities to design, develop, and manufacture sensors for smart homes, vehicles, wearables, hospitals, and cities.The e-Stamps fabricated using the process optimised Nano-OPS tool will be maximally energy efficient, will be enabled by the nano-scale device features that will open a new era in flexible electronic backplanes. These functions will be augmented by smart material interfaces that enable quasi-passive systems: for example a sensor that periodically updates an output that responds to interrogation by modulating a signal. There is also the challenge to harvest and store the energy to allow long-term autonomous operation of e-Stamps.To achieve all these objectives requires a closely coupled team of researchers who can cover the range of materials science, device design & physics, device fabrication, characterisation, testing, and system integration. In addition we will in particular support SMEs through the lower technology readiness levels that require more research input and experience. We will help identify and mitigate risks through small-scale device fabrication, providing a more rapid prototyping route and will help define strategies to pull through to pilot scale.

互联网正在扩展，超越我们日常使用的传统计算和通信设备，包括我们环境中的任何物理对象。这种扩展被称为IoT。下一代移动的通信网络将允许附着在任何物体上的传感器通过互联网共享有关其本地环境的信息。这些传感器正在开发中，已经部署的初始版本已经进入零售，医疗保健，环境和安全监测领域。随着大量传感器的部署，它们能够详细了解我们的环境，从而实现更好的监测和新型控制，以提高生活水平。物联网有能力在全球范围内彻底改变个人生活，物理基础设施和服务交付。到2025年，估计每年潜在的经济影响总额为3.9万亿至11.1万亿美元。然而，为了实现这一点，基本硬件的成本必须显着降低，并且必须实现比传统制造工艺成本降低一个数量级[McKinsey，2015]。纳米技术可以降低成本。此外，减小的尺寸使得该技术对于其设备制造和操作而言不引人注目并且能量密集性更低。但是，到目前为止，一个重要的瓶颈是缺乏高通量和可靠的纳米制造能力，使工艺适合于扩大规模和最终制造。关键的技术挑战是能够以足够小的几何形状，以高度可重复的方式，在非常大的面积上制造设备，使用廉价的加工，并且可以在不失去设备系统制造中的性能优势的情况下扩大规模。物联网将在定义下一代工程和服务方面发挥革命性的作用。我们的目标是使联合王国在确定这一未来方面处于领导地位。为此，我们建议购买一个纳米制造研究工具，使我们能够将最强大的用户，设计师和工程师团队聚集在一起，通过创新的制造研究来生产多功能的新型设备和系统。该工具将有助于开发纳米制造能力，提供一种廉价、高吞吐量、高性能的平台，将传感器、致动器、通信、能量捕获和存储功能与低功耗电路集成在一起。该平台将使设计和原型的各种设备和传感器。我们的项目合作伙伴和支持者（部分仍在联系中）将采用这些新的放大功能来设计、开发和制造智能家居、车辆、可穿戴设备、医院和城市的传感器。使用工艺优化的Nano-OPS工具制造的电子邮票将最大限度地提高能源效率，并将通过纳米级器件功能实现，这将开启柔性电子背板的新时代。这些功能将通过智能材料接口来增强，这些接口使准被动系统成为可能：例如，传感器定期更新输出，通过调制信号来响应询问。此外，电子邮票还需要收集和储存能量，以便长期自主运行。要实现所有这些目标，需要一支紧密合作的研究团队，他们可以涵盖材料科学、器件设计和物理、器件制造、表征、测试和系统集成等领域。此外，我们将特别支持中小型企业，通过较低的技术准备水平，需要更多的研究投入和经验。我们将通过小规模设备制造帮助识别和减轻风险，提供更快速的原型制作路线，并将帮助制定战略，以实现试点规模。

项目成果

Nature of Power Generation and Output Optimization Criteria for Triboelectric Nanogenerators

• DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201802190
• 发表时间: 2018-11-05
• 期刊: ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS
• 影响因子: 27.8
• 作者: Dharmasena, R. D. Ishara G.;Deane, Jonathan H. B.;Silva, S. Ravi P.
• 通讯作者: Silva, S. Ravi P.

Compact Source-Gated Transistor Analog Circuits for Ubiquitous Sensors

• DOI: 10.1109/jsen.2020.3012413
• 发表时间: 2020-12-15
• 期刊: IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL
• 影响因子: 4.3
• 作者: Bestelink, Eva;Niang, Kham M.;Sporea, Radu A.
• 通讯作者: Sporea, Radu A.

Multifunctional Nanostructures with Controllable Band Gap Giving Highly Stable Infrared Emissivity for Smart Thermal Management.

• DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c09737
• 发表时间: 2023-01-09
• 期刊: ACS NANO
• 影响因子: 17.1
• 作者: Delkowski, Michal;Anguita, Jose Virgilio;Smith, Christopher Toby Gibb;Silva, S. Ravi P.
• 通讯作者: Silva, S. Ravi P.

Protected catalyst growth of graphene and carbon nanotubes

• DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2019.04.030
• 发表时间: 2019-08
• 期刊: Carbon
• 影响因子: 10.9
• 作者: Muhammad Ahmad;J. Anguita;C. Ducati;J. D. Carey;S. Silva

Understanding the bonding mechanisms of organic molecules deposited on graphene for biosensing applications.

• DOI: 10.1063/5.0064136
• 发表时间: 2021-11
• 期刊: The Journal of chemical physics
• 作者: Elizabeth J Legge;Muhammad Munem Ali;H. Abbasi;B. Reed;B. Brennan;L. Matjačić;Z. Tehrani;V. Stolojan;S. Silva;O. Guy;A. Pollard