Project summary and approach
The DigiMan Project (December 2018 – November 2020) develops innovative sensor platforms for agro-industrial applications by providing a digital manufacturing process chain based on printing technologies and nano-material inks. This makes it possible to miniaturize the sensors, to achieve a flexibility in the target sensor properties and to realize these sensors in economically low cost even for small sensor batch quantities. The project will demonstrate miniaturized gas sensors with printed platinum heater on thin and mechanical flexible zirconia substrates with low power consumption. Low-cost temperature and humidity sensors are printed with silver and copper inks on flexible PET and paper substrates. For a wireless communication of these sensors, a Bluetooth communication board with an inkjet printed silver antenna and inkjet printed RFID sensor tag are developed.
DigiMan Capabilities
The DigiMan Project (December 2018 – November 2020) develops innovative sensor platforms for agro-industrial applications by providing a digital manufacturing process chain based on printing technologies and nano-material inks. This makes it possible to miniaturize the sensors, to achieve a flexibility in the target sensor properties and to realize these sensors in economically low cost even for small sensor batch quantities. The project will demonstrate miniaturized gas sensors with printed platinum heater on thin and mechanical flexible zirconia substrates with low power consumption. Low-cost temperature and humidity sensors are printed with silver and copper inks on flexible PET and paper substrates. For a wireless communication of these sensors, a Bluetooth communication board with an inkjet printed silver antenna and inkjet printed RFID sensor tag are developed.
DigiMan Capabilities
- Silver, copper, platinum inks with nano-particles < 200 nm and solid content up to 50 wt.-%
- Extreme thin and mechanically flexible zirconia substrates of 20 to 40 µm thickness.
- Metal oxide inks for gas sensing, e.g. methane, hydrogen and carbon monoxide.
- Digital printing technologies of inkjet and aerosol-jet, scaling R2R.
- Miniaturized printed Pt-heater on thin zirconia for low power consumption (< 200 mW).
- Metal-oxide semiconductor gas sensors (MOX) based on ceramic technologies (ceramic MEMS).
- Digital printed humidity and temperature sensors on low-cost PET and paper substrates.
DigiMan Midterm Results
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Acknowledgment
MANUNET project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement nº 721267.
Download the DigiMan Flyer prepared for LOPEC 2020
MANUNET project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement nº 721267.
Download the DigiMan Flyer prepared for LOPEC 2020