Photonic Processing in High-Speed Manufacturing of Eco-Friendly Printable Materials & Sensors

愿景：这项发现基金的长期目标是领导一个国际公认的研究项目，研究利用光子技术开发先进制造方法和工具的基本方法，以制造低成本、环保、柔性和可打印的材料和传感器，并在未来的物联网（IoT）部署中实施。理由：与工业4.0和物联网革命相关的智能网络物理系统的大规模推动旨在基于更好且易于获取的新数据集实时做出更明智的决策。对于生物医学、制造业或消费电子应用，更好、更便宜的智能传感器架构显然将成为这一深刻变革的核心。迫切需要大规模部署这种无处不在的传感器网络，以无线无缝的方式相互通信，这是实现这些新范式的关键障碍。该研究项目将采用基于尖端专业知识的光子技术，从快速退火工艺和在印刷制造过程的不同阶段对柔性材料和传感器的非接触式在线检测等方面研究基本制造策略，以获得所需的传感器性能和有效载荷。如今，这种制造方法被认真认为是下一代先进的方法和工具，用于实现超高速大批量R2R和工业喷墨制造设备。目标：基于过去几年的研究势头，我们提出探索未知领域，以实现前所未有的先进制造方法和工具的研究。在接下来的五年里，我们将专注于光子技术的发展，以实现对低成本环保柔性材料和传感器的无与伦比的基本方法，这些材料和传感器可能会改变微电子领域，能够在未来的物联网部署中提供更环保可持续的无处不在的传感器网络。

SUMMARY OF PROPOSAL Photonic Processing in High-Speed Manufacturing of Eco-Friendly Printable Materials & Sensors Vision: The long-term goal of this Discovery Grant is to lead an internationally-recognized research program investigating fundamental approaches to develop Advanced Fabrication Methods & Tools using Photonic Technologies in the manufacturing of low-cost eco-friendly flexible and printable materials & sensors toward their implementation in future Internet of Things (IoT) deployment. Rationale: The massive push for intelligent cyber-physical systems associated with the Industry 4.0 and the IoT revolutions aims at taking better-informed decisions in real-time based on better and readily-acquired sets of new data. For biomedical, manufacturing or consumer electronics applications, better and cheaper smart sensor architectures will obviously be at the core of this profound transformation. The urgent demand for large deployment of such ubiquitous sensor networks communicating with one another in a wirelessly seamless fashion is a crucial roadblock towards achieving these new paradigms. The research program will employ Photonic Technologies based on cutting-edge expertise to study fundamental fabrication strategies from rapid annealing processes and contactless in-line inspection of flexible materials & sensors at different stages of the printing fabrication process in order to obtain the desired sensors performance and payload. Nowadays such fabrication approach is seriously considered to be the next generation of advanced methods & tools for implementation in very-high-speed high-volume R2R and industrial inkjet manufacturing equipment.   Objectives: Building on the research momentum from the last years, we propose to explore unknown territories in order to achieve research from unprecedented advanced fabrication methods & tools. In the next five-year, we will focus on the development of photonic technologies to achieve an unparalleled fundamental approach towards low-cost eco-friendly flexible materials & sensors that can potentially transform the field of microelectronics, being able to provide more environmentally sustainable ubiquitous sensor networks in the future IoT deployment.