A hybrid precision manufacturing platform for next-generation of nanoscale products

为了确保英国工业在先进制造业的全球领导地位，以及进入数十亿英镑纳米级产品市场的需求，斯特拉斯克莱德在混合机器设计和滚动纳米电极光刻（RNEL）技术方面的世界领先研究，该方案试图建立一种新的柔性和可重构的混合精密制造平台（HPMP），从开创性的亚纳米级到微米级的各种结构的纳米级产品的生产量，在大面积上具有纳米级的精度（cm^2在本项目中，但可扩展到m^2）的各种材料。这种低成本的纳米级精密“实验室到工厂”低到中批量生产平台将大大提高信息通信技术（ICT）、光子、半导体微电子和新兴量子技术行业，以应对人工智能和数据驱动型经济的巨大挑战（物联网（IoT）、数据存储、量子计算和通信设备）、清洁增长（等离子体太阳能电池），未来的移动性（光检测和测距）和老龄化社会（医疗检测和诊断设备），根据英国产业战略。该项目将通过知识交流、培训、工业示范和部署，将研究成果转化为工业和社会。

To ensure UK industry's global leadership in advanced manufacturing and the need to access to the multi-billion pounds nanoscale products market, building on Strathclyde's world-leading research in hybrid machine design and rolling nanoelectrode lithography (RNEL) technology, this proposal attempts to establish a new flexible and reconfigurable hybrid precision manufacturing platform (HPMP) for low-cost and high-throughput production of nanoscale products possessing various structures from ground-breaking sub-nanometre to micrometre scales, with nanoscale precision over large areas (cm^2 in this project, but scalable to m^2) of various materials.This low-cost nanoscale precision 'lab-to-fab' low-to-medium volume production platform will significantly enhance the producibility and productivity of nanoscale products for information communication technology (ICT), photonic, semiconductor, microelectronic and emerging quantum technology industry sectors to address the grand challenges of an AI & data-driven economy (Internet of Things (IoTs), data storage, quantum computing & communication devices), clean growth (plasmonic solar cells), future mobility (light detection and ranging) and an aging society (medical detection & diagnostic devices) in accordance with the UK Industrial Strategy. The project will transform the research outcome to industry and our society through knowledge exchange, training, industrial demonstration and deployment.