SBIR Phase II: Flexible Organic Circuits with Photolithography for eReader Applications

SBIR 第二阶段：用于电子阅读器应用的采用光刻技术的柔性有机电路

• 批准号: 1230454
• 负责人: John DeFranco
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: Orthogonal, Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1230454&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Flexible; Organic; SBIR; Phase; II; Flexible; Organic

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project aims to quickly enable the large-scale manufacturing of organic and flexible electronic devices by leveraging the existing infrastructure used in the display industry. Currently, proven manufacturing techniques do not exist that can make flexible electronics at scale, and all proposed methods would require the abandonment of billions of dollars of equipment and decades of manufacturing expertise based around photolithography. This proposal aims to solve this problem, using photoresist technology that is designed to work with a wide range of materials including organic electronics. Previous research has established the feasibility of these resists, but there is still much work needed to apply the technology to more complex and integrated systems, especially when working with flexible substrates. The Phase I project has revealed the areas of improvement needed to reach mass production and high yields for demanding display applications. This project will address these issues and will create a high-performance process capable of making flexible eReaders with high yield. Researchers will work with industrial and academic partners to gain a better understanding of all of the issues required to be overcome as the process is scaled up to a real application.The broader impact/commercial potential of this project will be very large for the display industry, which seeks to manufacture innovative flexible eReader displays for the large worldwide education market. The broader commercial potential lies in the sales of high-margin and high-volume chemicals to an industry that will quickly ramp production. The photoresist market for liquid crystal displays (LCDs) is currently $1.2 billion, and it is anticipated that the proposed technology will dominate the organic electronic resist market, which is anticipated to reach similar values. The societal benefits will be seen when the eReaders are brought to classrooms around the world. Their low weight, low power consumption, and physical robustness will allow these displays to fully replace heavy and expensive textbooks, changing the lives of millions of children domestically, and in developing countries such as China and Russia.

这项小型企业创新研究阶段项目旨在通过利用展示行业中使用的现有基础设施来快速实现有机和灵活的电子设备的大规模制造。目前，尚不存在可实现的制造技术可以大规模制造灵活的电子产品，所有提出的方法都需要放弃数十亿美元的设备和数十年来基于光刻术的制造专业知识。该提案旨在使用旨在与包括有机电子在内的各种材料一起使用的光孔技术来解决此问题。以前的研究已经确定了这些抵抗力的可行性，但是将技术应用于更复杂和集成的系统，尤其是在使用灵活的底物时，仍然需要做很多工作。第一阶段项目揭示了达到批量生产和高收益率的苛刻显示应用所需的改进领域。该项目将解决这些问题，并将创建一个高性能的过程，能够使柔性式电子脱落者的产量高。 研究人员将与工业和学术合作伙伴合作，以更好地了解该过程的实际应用，以克服所需的所有问题。该项目的更大影响/商业潜力对于展示行业来说将非常庞大，该展览行业试图为大型全球教育市场制造创新的灵活的Ereader展示。 更广泛的商业潜力在于，高利润和大容量化学物质的销售额将迅速促进生产。液晶显示器（LCD）的光抗抗光抗命市场目前为12亿美元，预计拟议的技术将主导有机电子抗性市场，预计该市场将达到相似的价值。当将电子培训带到世界各地的教室时，将会看到社会利益。它们的低体重，低功耗和身体鲁棒性将使这些展示能够完全取代沉重且昂贵的教科书，在国内以及中国和俄罗斯等发展中国家的生活中改变了数百万儿童的生活。