CNT-Nanostickers · Anisotropic High-Density Carbon Nanotube Coatings for Thin-Film Electronics
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2015-07-01 → 2017-06-30
- EU contribution
- €183,455
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF-EF-ST
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Results in brief
Anisotropic High-Density Carbon Nanotube Coatings for Thin-Film Electronics
This project lays the foundation of a technology to produce thin-films made of molecules called Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs). As the name suggests, Nanotubes have a tubular shape; they are flexible, light and excellent electronic conductors. These features make them ideal candidates for engineering new materials for electronic applications where weight and flexibility are crucial, for instance: portable devices or aeroplanes, where a longer travel range could be achieved if using CNT-cables. To be a winner though, CNTs must be arranged into densely-packed and aligned configuration, like bundles or films, so to maximize the number of channels for the flow of electric current. The first objective of the project is to make a liquid CNTs solution (CNT-ink) which eventually allows aligning CNTs by extrusion. Secondly, the project is a study of the feasibility of a microfluidic nozzle enabling the deposition of aligned CNTs as a film, which is indeed the best mean to convey their properties to a support that can be easily integrated into the production of electronic devices.
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Project objective
This project proposal aims at developing a new manufacturing technology for processing nano-materials by combining emerging scientific insights in nanoparticle assembly with scalable production processes. Our goal is to establish the first scalable technology to make thin-films comprising densely packed aligned Carbon Nanotubes (CNT) of highest quality. These films will be fabricated by controlled wet deposition and transfer techniques, and used as a high-performance material for device fabrication. On the longer term, the same principles could be extended to the production of transparent conductors, sensors, and to variety of other applications. As a demonstrator, horizontal CNT-interconnects targeting a resistivity below 100μΩ•cm will be fabricated. At this value CNT become a viable alternative to Copper in Microelectronics. This disruptive push of CNT-interconnects into commercially competitive specifications will be enabled by: the superior quality of the CNTs used in the CNT-films, advances in their transferring, the skillset of the host-group in nanoparticle’s assembly and manufacturing processes and the 7-years expertise of the applicant in CNT-interconnects. The network of both participants in various European countries and the assistance of IMEC (Belgium), partner organization to this project, will facilitate the implementation of this research for enabling a true industrial impact on EU economy.
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Participants
- THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · CAMBRIDGECoordinatorUnited Kingdom
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