Pilot-line providing highly advanced & robust manufacturing technology for optical free-form micro-structures
- Grant Agreement number: 871710
- Starting Date: 01/01/2020
- Duration: 48 M
- Call identifier: H2020-ICT-2019-2
- Topic: ICT-03-2018-2019 Photonics Manufacturing Pilot Lines for Photonic Components and Devices
- Funding: EUR 14 982 777.29
Abstract:
The urgent need to provide miniaturized optical components is at the origin of the exponential growth of the microoptics market over the last decade, with an increasing need for free-form micro-optics to address the challenges set by the photonics market for the five to ten years to come. The industrial demand for free-form microlens arrays (FMLAs) is a current market reality. However, the high access barriers to pre-commercial production capabilities in Europe prevent companies, especially SMEs, from commercially exploiting the FMLA technology. Aim of the project is to set up a self-sustainable pilot-line for the design and manufacturing of FMLAs solutions and their integration into high added-value products. The consortium translates urgent and high-impact industrial needs into industrially relevant predictive software packages, manufacturing tools and processes, characterization methods for in- and off-line quality inspection and integration schemes, all necessary for the successful demonstration in pre-commercial production runs. Objective of the project is 1) to mature the FMLAs manufacturing processes and functionalities from the current technology readiness level TRL 5 to TRL 7 and increase the overall manufacturing readiness level of the pilot line from MRL 5 -6 up to MRL 8-9 by adaptation of predictive algorithms into simulation packages, optimization of different ultraprecision micro-machining technologies for the origination of high-quality FMLAs, optimization of high-throughput UV imprint technologies, integration of a surface coating technique portfolio, optimization of the metrology procedure; 2) to implement six industrial use-cases demonstrating pilot manufacturing in their operational environment; 3) to establish an open access, sustainable, distributed pilot line infrastructure with single entry point; 4) to validate the pilot line services through the implementation of 20 industrial pilot cases.
Consortium:
 | Centre Suisse d’Electronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM) |
 | Limbak 4PI SL (LIMBAK) |
 | Nanocomp Oy Ltd (NC) |
 | Morphotonics BV (MPH) |
 | Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft (JR) |
 | SUSS MicroOptics SA (SMO) |
 | European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC) |
 | Microoled S.A.S. (MOD) |
 | D. Swarovski KG (DSW) |
 | Zumtobel lighting GMBH (ZUMTOBEL) |
 | Seisenbacher GMBH (SEI) |
 | Hella gmbh & CO KGAA (HELLA) |
 | Commissariat a l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) |
 | Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy (VTT) |
 | Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology (Fraunhofer FEP) |
 | Powerphotonic Limited (PPH) |
 | Laser engineering applications s.a. (LASEA) |
 | Wielandts ultra precision machining technologies (UPMT) |
 | Amires s.r.o. (AMI) |
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 871710, project PHABULOUS.
