PFI TT: A Technology Platform to Enable Microsystems with a Wide Variety of Functions

PFI TT：一个使微系统具有多种功能的技术平台

• 批准号: 2044631
• 负责人: Angus Kingon
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: Brown University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-07-15 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2044631&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PFI; TT; Technology; Platform; Enable

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Partnerships for Innovation - Technology Translation (PFI-TT) project lies in the creation of a new processing technology platform that allows the fabrication of microsystems for imaging, processing, and industrial applications. One example application is the ultrasound transducer array that may reduce the cost and improve the image resolution in medical ultrasonic imaging systems. The transducers of ultrasound imaging systems represent a current global market of $3 B. The new ultrasound transducers may help advance the trend towards increased capabilities for medical diagnostics at home, integrated with mobile devices to facilitate remote checkups and advanced personal health monitoring. The project will act as a rich training vehicle, covering multidisciplinary topics ranging from understanding fundamental properties of environmentally friendly piezoelectric materials and device structure and integration, to designing elements of medical imaging systems and ultrasonic transducers. In parallel, the project will provide training in technology entrepreneurship and commercialization for a post-doctoral researcher. The collaboration and personnel exchange with our industrial partners, particularly Xerox, will provide knowledge of commercial processing and market issues as well as useful insights for the academic team and students. Project activities will also promote the participation of women and under-represented minorities. The proposed project creates a new, low-cost, processing technology platform that allows for the fabrication of microsystems such as large arrays of high frequency ultrasound transducers for imaging, processing and industrial applications as well as miniaturized “chemical and biochemical reactors” with integrated pumps, valves and sensors. The robust new platforms provide capabilities between (and complementary to) silicon-based microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology and full scale engineered products. The project seeks to demonstrate two proofs of concept that involve arrays of piezoelectric transducers. One prototype addresses the need for improved transducers for medical ultrasound imaging - a diagnostic technique that is gaining favor due to its harmlessness and low-cost relative to other medical imaging techniques. The second prototype seeks to enable the development of acoustic tweezers to open up new applications in the control and processing of individual particles and streams of particles, relevant to holographic displays and additive manufacturing. The successful processing of the prototypes will enable the method to be used as a robust platform to manufacture a wider range of microsystems that integrate multiple sensing, actuation and fluidic functions.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.

创新 - 技术翻译（PFI -TT）的更广泛的影响/商业电位，用于成像，加工和工业应用的微型系统的制造是可以减少医用图像成像系统中的图像分辨率的超声传感器系统代表当前的全球市场3美元。新的超声传感器可能有助于促进在家中进行医学诊断的趋势，并与移动设备集成，以促进远程和高级的个人健康监控。象征的结构和整合，以平行设计医学成像系统和超声波换能器的元素。商业加工和市场是学术团队和学生的Whell Asefrayl Insights。作为微型CTORS“带有集成的泵，阀门和传感器。强大的新平台在Icroelectromenerical Systems（MEMS）技术和完整的工程产品之间提供能力。该项目旨在证明两个概念证明。一个原型解决了改进的tandducers forsation forsation forsation fortducet - 相对于其他医学成像技术而获得的诊断技术，这是由于har mleless和低成本而获得的。原型的处理逐渐处理将用作可用的方法，以制造更广泛的微型系统，以整合多个离子和流动性功能。这奖反映了NSF的fly速度使命，并具有值得支持的Thalugh评估美国知识分子的功绩和知识分子优点和智力优点，更广泛的影响审查标准。