SBIR Phase I: Thermal Drawing of Hybrid Organic-InorganicMulti-Material Dielectric Filters

SBIR 第一阶段：混合有机-无机多材料介电滤波器的热绘图

• 批准号: 1843789
• 负责人: Esmaeil Banaei
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位: Everix, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-02-01 至 2019-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1843789&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Thermal; Drawing; Hybrid

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to provide high-performance light filtering at a level that potentially affects all people in the world. Inexpensive high-performance light filters allow for early detection of cancer and infection by bringing the highest-precision technologies such as fluorescence microscopy and sensing to portable, consumer diagnostic devices. They also make sensors in self-driving cars and other intelligent devices of the future to detect objects in the surroundings more accurately by eliminating the undesired light noise from the ambient and focusing on the target frequencies of light only. Batteries of future mobile devices may also last up to 20% longer due to more efficient light energy management in display units that become possible with low-cost, large-scale optical filters.?Finally,?the anticipated lower manufacturing cost at high volume will allow for more high-tech manufacturing jobs to remain in the US.The proposed project will establish the technical feasibility of using a novel multi-material, micro- and nano-layered film production process in order to produce visible and near-infrared thin-film optical filters. The time and cost requirements of conventional, deposition-based production techniques of such filters are a significant barrier to market growth and commercial acceptance of their broad range of uses. In order to address this market gap, this project will investigate the elements necessary for consistent production of filters made of hybrid organic/inorganic materials using the novel process of thermal drawing. This investigation will cover methods of integration and handling of hybrid organic-inorganic materials in the thermal drawing process as well as understanding and controlling fluidic instabilities at interfaces to obtain filter uniformity and integrity. The results of the proposed research will determine whether the novel thermal drawing process, in conjunction with developed materials and handling techniques, can reliably generate high-performance visible and near infrared filters at scale.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）I阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是提供高性能的轻型过滤，以可能影响世界上所有人的水平。廉价的高性能光过滤器可以通过将诸如荧光显微镜和感应的最高精确技术（例如便携式消费者诊断设备）带入癌症和感染的早期检测。他们还通过消除环境中的不需要的光噪声并专注于光的目标频率，在自动驾驶汽车和未来的其他智能设备中制造传感器，以更准确地检测周围环境中的对象。未来移动设备的电池电池在显示单元中更有效的光能管理会导致可能会持续20％，而这些单元中的光能管理可以通过低成本，大规模的光学过滤器变得可能会成为可能。？？？？预期的是，预期的较高的制造成本较高，可以使更高的高科技制造业工作能够保持在美国的高科技制造业。近红外薄膜光学过滤器。这种过滤器的常规，基于沉积的生产技术的时间和成本要求是市场增长和商业接受其广泛用途的重大障碍。为了解决这一市场差距，该项目将使用新颖的热绘图过程调查由混合有机/无机材料制成的过滤器所需的要素。这项研究将涵盖热图过程中混合有机无机材料的整合和处理方法，以及在接口处理解和控制流体不稳定性，以获得滤波器的均匀性和完整性。拟议的研究的结果将确定新型的热绘图过程以及发达的材料和处理技术是否可以可靠地产生可见的高性能和近乎红外的过滤器。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过评估该基金会的知识分子优点和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务，并被视为值得进行的支持。