Innovative Material, Processes and Devices for Low Power Flexible Electronics: Creating a Sustainable Internet of Everything

低功耗柔性电子产品的创新材料、工艺和设备：创建可持续的万物互联

• 批准号: EP/X025195/1
• 负责人: Andrew Johnson
• 金额: $ 296.12万
• 依托单位: University of Bath
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX025195%2F1
• 关键词: Innovative; Material; Processes; Devices; Low; Innovative; Material; Processes; Devices; Low

Smart electronics are an increasingly important part of everyday life. More than ever, they are integrated into an expansive array of everyday products which is evident from the explosion in numbers of devices connected to the Internet of Things (IoT). The current trend is for each device to have its own IP address, but in future individual devices will not require their own IP address as they will be a part of a local network with a single connection point to the internet. This allows greater scalability leading to the Internet of Everything. Flexible electronics on substrates like plastic will be behind the creation of this Internet of Everything as it drives the integration of electronics into everyday objects such as packaging. PragmatIC Semiconductor is a leading developer of large-area electronic logic and memory on flexible substrates and part of the strategic roadmap for this technology is the realisation of so-called CMOS which offers low-power and greater circuit functionality. A significant barrier to achieving flexible CMOS is the lack of compatible p-type oxide semiconductors.This prosperity partnership addresses this need, and by working with an academic team drawn together from the Universities of Bath, Cambridge and Liverpool, the 5-year project will target new precursors and materials, manufacturing processes, devices and circuit designs, in a concerted and cohesive research program. The additionality of this prosperity-partnership is rooted within the well-founded existing collaborations of the project team, as well as the extensive range of expertise and world-class facilities that the consortium brings together. The outcomes of the fundamental research represent a significant contribution to the global state-of-the-art.In terms of the technological and commercial outcomes, PragmatIC Semiconductor is well placed to exploit this fundamental research to realise its full impact. The importance of this to the UK economy cannot be overstated. The UK has the world's 6th largest electronics industry with an annual turnover of >£100 billion. This prosperity partnership will contribute to the consolidation of the UK's leading position in design through the development of the underpinning electronics for IoT devices. It will also enable new electronics manufacturing in the UK with associated wider supply chain benefits.As well as functionality, flexible electronics offers the opportunity for some more sustainable outcomes. The global Electronics Industry is a significant contributor to CO2 emissions and other pollution. The sector is working hard to reduce its CO2-footprint by a switch to 100% renewable energy supplies, however this will only eliminate 60% of the projected emissions, because the remainder of the fixed embedded carbon resides within feedstock chemicals and gases and heating/cooling. PragmatIC Semiconductor has already developed a manufacturing process than uses a hundred times less energy and water than a conventional silicon "fab" and results in thousand times lower CO2e. The company has also committed to the "Race-to-Zero" pledge of reaching net-zero by 2050. Part of this effort of achieving this target lies within prosperity-partnership and together we are evaluating alternative manufacturing processes for parallel rather than serial thin-film deposition. This approach will potentially increase efficiency in terms of precursor chemical consumption, at the same time as reducing energy use. The company's Circular Economy team will make Life Cycle Assessments of the processes arising from the prosperity-partnership and will embed the research across its technology and product development.Silicon-based electronics became a scalable technology through the development of CMOS in the 1970s. Our aim is for this work to have a similar impact on large-area flexible electronics, allowing the scalability that will lead to the sustainable creation of the future Internet of Everything.

智能电子产品是日常生活中越来越重要的一部分。它们比以往任何时候都集成到每天扩张的产品中，这些产品从连接到物联网（IoT）的许多设备的爆炸中证明了这一点。当前的趋势是每个设备都具有自己的IP地址，但是在将来，单个设备将不需要自己的IP地址，因为它们将成为具有与Internet单个连接点的本地网络的一部分。这允许更大的可伸缩性导致所有事物的互联网。诸如塑料之类的基材上的灵活电子设备将在这种互联网创建所有事物的背后，因为它将电子设备集成到每天的物体（例如包装）中。务实的半导体是柔性基板上的大面积电子逻辑和记忆的领先开发商，该技术的一部分战略路线图是所谓的CMO的现实，该现实是提供低功率和更大电路功能的所谓CMO。实现灵活CMO的一个重大障碍是缺乏兼容的P型氧化物半导体。这种繁荣伙伴关系解决了这一需求，并通过与Bath，Cambridge和Liverpool大学的学术团队一起工作，这项5年的项目将针对新的前体和材料，制造新的前体和材料，设备，设备，巡回演出，并在研究中进行了研究，并在合唱方面制造了一个合唱团，并共同努力。这种繁荣合作伙伴关系的加强源于项目团队的现有合作，以及该财团融合的广泛专业知识和世界一流的设施。基本研究的结果代表了对全球最先进的贡献。就技术和商业成果而言，实用的半导体非常有利于利用这项基本研究以实现其全部影响。这对英国经济的重要性不能被夸大。英国拥有全球第六大电子业，年营业额为1000亿英镑。这种繁荣伙伴关系将通过开发IoT设备的基础电子设备的开发来促进英国在设计领域的领先地位。它还将在英国促进新的电子制造，并具有相关的更广泛的供应链收益。而且，柔性电子设备为一些更可持续的结果提供了机会。全球电子行业是二氧化碳排放和其他污染的重要贡献。该行业正在努力将其二氧化碳脚印减少到100％可再生能源供应，但这只会消除60％的预计排放，因为其余的固定嵌入式碳住宅中的原料化学药品和气体和加热/冷却/冷却。务实的半导体已经开发了一种制造过程，比传统的硅“ Fab”所使用的能量和水比消耗一百倍的能量和水，并且二氧化碳少千倍。该公司还致力于到2050年达到净零的“零赛车”承诺。实现这一目标的这一努力中的一部分在于繁荣 - 合作伙伴关系，我们共同评估了并行的替代制造过程，而不是串行的薄膜沉积。与减少能源使用的同时，这种方法可能会提高前体化学消耗的效率。该公司的循环经济团队将对繁荣合作伙伴关系产生的过程进行生命周期评估，并将跨越其技术和产品开发的研究嵌入研究。基于西尔基的电子产品通过1970年代的CMO开发成为一种可扩展的技术。我们的目的是使这项工作对大区域灵活的电子产品产生类似的影响，从而允许可扩展性，从而导致所有事物的未来互联网的可持续性创建。