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.

该小企业创新研究 (SBIR) 第一阶段项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是提供高性能的光过滤，其水平可能会影响世界上所有人。廉价的高性能滤光片通过将荧光显微镜和传感等最高精度的技术引入便携式消费诊断设备，可以实现癌症和感染的早期检测。他们还制造自动驾驶汽车和未来其他智能设备中的传感器，通过消除环境中不需要的光噪声并仅关注光的目标频率，更准确地检测周围的物体。未来移动设备的电池续航时间也可能会延长 20%，因为显示单元中的光能管理可以通过低成本、大规模光学滤波器实现更高效。最后，预计大批量生产时的制造成本将会降低允许更多高科技制造业工作留在美国。拟议的项目将建立使用新型多材料、微米和纳米层薄膜生产工艺的技术可行性，以生产可见光和近红外薄膜薄膜光学滤光片。此类过滤器的传统基于沉积的生产技术的时间和成本要求是其广泛用途的市场增长和商业接受的重大障碍。为了弥补这一市场空白，该项目将研究使用新型热拉工艺连续生产由有机/无机混合材料制成的过滤器所需的要素。这项研究将涵盖热拉伸过程中有机-无机杂化材料的集成和处理方法，以及理解和控制界面处的流体不稳定性以获得过滤器的均匀性和完整性。拟议研究的结果将决定新颖的热拉伸工艺与开发的材料和处理技术相结合是否能够可靠地大规模生产高性能可见光和近红外滤光片。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被认为是值得的通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来提供支持。