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

展望：这一发现基金的长期目标是领导一项国际公认的研究计划，调查在低成本、环保、柔性和可打印材料和传感器的制造中使用光子技术开发先进制造方法和工具的基本途径，以便在未来的物联网(IoT)部署中实施这些方法。理论基础：与Industry 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，旨在基于更好和容易获得的新数据集，实时做出更知情的决策。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是这场深刻变革的核心。大规模部署这种无处不在的传感器网络以无线无缝方式相互通信的迫切需求是实现这些新模式的关键障碍。该研究计划将利用基于尖端专业知识的光电子技术，研究柔性材料和传感器在印刷制造过程的不同阶段的快速退火工艺和非接触式在线检测的基本制造策略，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地认为是在超高速、大容量R2R和工业喷墨制造设备中实施的下一代先进方法和工具。目标：在过去几年研究势头的基础上，我们建议探索未知领域，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，以实现无与伦比的根本途径，获得低成本的生态友好型柔性材料和传感器，这种材料和传感器可能改变微电子领域，能够在未来的物联网部署中提供更环保的可持续泛在传感器网络。

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.