European Commission announces schemes to boost photonics SMEs
The European Commission has invested €35 million in three manufacturing pilot lines for helping SMEs take photonics technologies from lab to market. The pilot lines will allow thousands of technology SMEs in Europe – which often lack access to the infrastructure and expertise needed for manufacturing new products – to scale-up their technologies and validate them with the first customers for commercial production.
SMEs with a focus on health applications, flexible organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), and sensors for the detection of chemicals in gas and liquids, will be able to use the new schemes. The first scheme, PIX4Life, will aim to scale up photonics platforms to bring silicon nitride-based imaging systems for the visible spectral range towards commercial production and industrial take up. This will open a multi- billion Euro market for products including biosensors, cytometers, DNA sequencers, gas sensors, microscopes, medical imagers and more.
The PI-SCALE pilot line will accelerate the commercial adoption of flexible OLEDs. The project will
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Rofin has announced the merger of two of its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Dilas (Mainz, Germany) and m2k- Laser (Freiburg, Germany). The combined unit will be headquartered in Mainz and operated under the Dilas brand.
Materials company JSR, and nanoelectronics research centre, Imec have formalised a joint venture for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography. The EUV Resist Manufacturing and
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offer world class capability in pilot production services for customised flexible OLEDs. It will enable companies to test and scale up their flexible OLED lighting concepts quickly and cost effectively, and turn them into market-ready products. The MIRPHAB project centres on prototyping and production of light sources and sensors in the mid-IR range, for the detection of chemicals in gas and liquids. The MIRPHAB platform is based on miniaturised laser systems and will allow the manufacture of compact, low cost and low power consumption sensing devices, which can be used for safety, security and environmental applications. The industry partners involved in MIRPHAB are committed to deploying new products swiftly in the market, and to achieveing prompt take up in the environmental and chemical sensing areas. The European Commission
has invested €35 million in these programmes to boost Europe’s industrial competitiveness. This is part of the European Commission’s €700 million investment in the Photonics Public Private Partnership (PPP) over the seven years of Horizon 2020, the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation.
Qualification Centre will see both companies collaborate on the manufacture and quality control of EUV lithography materials.
The Optical Society (OSA) has announced the following finalists in its Enabled by Optics competition: Consumer Physics, for a molecular scanner that fits in the hand; Cosemi Technologies, for its hybrid OptoHD cable; Double Helix, for a 3D super- resolution imaging device aiding drug development; and Nanolive, for the 3D Cell Explorer microscope. Winners will be announced in April.
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