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

这个PFI: AIR研究联盟项目的重点是转换和转移来自伯克利传感器和执行器中心在微制造化学敏感场效应晶体管（cs - fet）方面的专业知识和发现的多种气体传感技术。CS-FET非常重要，因为它使新型微型、低功耗、低成本的设备能够更广泛地部署无线紧急泄漏检测和报警系统，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功耗降低。传感能力将促进工业和消费者的安全和健康应用。与市场上领先的手持式气体传感器相比，这些功能将在移动性、多种气体定位以及无线传感器网络集成的适用性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在研究商业化的更多阶段的密切合作，获得创业和技术翻译经验，而不是目前在工业赞助的大学研究项目中观察到的。该项目解决了从研究发现到商业应用转化中的几个技术差距。批量制造的气体传感器本身利用经济的半导体工艺来创造一种新颖的低成本，低功率晶体管，可以在单一衬底上化学官能化多种气体。该项目还将支持超低功耗无线通信平台的积极小型化，这些平台建立在为此类应用而建立的新无线网络标准（如wireless HART）上。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边界跨越结合将验证创新生态系统，这是该计划的主题。该创新生态系统将被创建，包括油气行业的领导者雪佛龙公司（Chevron Corporation），该公司提供应用和操作知识，并将未满足的产品需求作为最终客户/最终用户提供给生态系统；村田制造株式会社，电子和无线组件和子系统的跨国领导者；罗斯蒙特是艾默生的一个业务部门，艾默生是工业自动化领域的市场领导者，也是石油和天然气等目标行业的主要供应商；NanoShift是一家微加工合同和咨询公司，在大学的充电实验室里存在，正在开发CS-FET。预计经济影响将是开发和制造业工作，以及高科技系统和现场服务人员的就业。其中一些影响将在5年的时间框架内开始实现，因为积极的协作共同开发生态系统将缩短从发现到商业化的时间框架。清洁空气技术的投资规模可以从雪佛龙公司目前的预测中看到，该公司位于加州里士满的炼油厂（仅是美国143家商业石油和天然气炼油厂之一）的一个设施技术现代化项目将提供多达1000个工作岗位，其中一些是为了减少排放。

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.