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

为了确保英国在先进制造领域的全球领先地位和进入数十亿磅纳米产品市场的需要，基于Strathclyde在混合机械设计和滚压纳米电极光刻(RNEL)技术方面的世界领先研究，该提案试图建立一个新的灵活和可重构的混合精密制造平台(HPMP)，用于低成本和高产量地生产从突破性的亚纳米到微米级各种结构的纳米产品，在本项目中具有纳米级精度(cm^2，这个低成本的纳米级精密“实验室到工厂”中低批量生产平台将显著提高纳米级产品的生产能力和生产率，用于信息通信技术(ICT)、光子、半导体、微电子和新兴量子技术行业，以根据英国产业战略应对人工智能和数据驱动的经济(物联网、数据存储、量子计算和通信设备)、清洁增长(等离子太阳能电池)、未来移动性(光探测和测距)以及老龄化社会(医疗检测和诊断设备)等重大挑战。该项目将通过知识交流、培训、产业示范和部署，将研究成果转化为行业和我们的社会。

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.