MIcro-NanOSystems
PATENT-dfmm :
Design for Micro & Nano Manufacture
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PATENT-dfmm : Objective
The NoE Patent-DfMM aims to establish a
collaborative team to provide
European industry with support in the field of
"Design for Micro and Nano
Manufacture (DfMM)" to ensure that problems
affecting the manufacture
and reliability of products based on micro nano
technologies (MNT) can be
addressed before prototype and pre-production.
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PATENT-dfmm : Mission
• Re-structure the European DfMM Community
by creating new collaborative virtual laboratories
providing industrial services in :
° Design-for-test engineering
° Reliability and characterisation engineering
° Packaging engineering
° Modelling and simulation technology
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PATENT-dfmm : Mission…
• Create a commercial industrial support service in
DfMM technology
• Accelerate the output of trained professionals in
DfMM engineering
• Network key equipment facilities and improve
academic and commercial access to core
capabilities
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PATENT-dfmm : WP1 “Design for Test”…
Task force on Design for Testability of Microand Nano-Systems (MNS) intends to establish
itself as a virtual lab with a recognized expertise
in the field. Everything that may improve
testability of a MNS by an action during its
entire lifecycle will be considered.
This includes design, development and in-service test.
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PATENT-dfmm : …WP1 “Design for Test”
The task force is composed of 20 European researchers
from six European organisations and is organized
in working groups that tackles most of the problems
in MNS test engineering. Examples:
Cost of external test stimuli
Cost of specification-based tests
Impact of packaging on test costs
Nanosystem specificities
Low-cost test methodologies
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PATENT-dfmm : WP2 “Modelling&Simulation”
The aim of the modelling and simulation workpackage
is to support the process of robust design, packaging
and assembly of the next generation of micro and
nano technology based products. WP2 will establish
a collaborative service to industry in the form of a
virtual lab. WP2 is working closely with the other
technical workpackages to address the main research
challenges in DfMM.
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PATENT-dfmm : WP2 “Modelling&Simulation”
The workapackage team includes researchers from
14 European Institutes. The research challenges to be
addressed by the partners during the project include:
- Multi-scale and multi physics modelling
- Enabling accurate packaging and system simulation
- Non-linear behaviour prediction
- Microfluidics modelling
- Failure and degradation mode modelling
-Definition of a new cross domain simulation
methodology
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PATENT-dfmm : WP3 “Reliability&Characterization”
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The objective of the Reliability & Characterisation
Task Force is to increase awareness of reliability
issues amongst designers, and assist them in
integrating “design for reliability” techniques into
their design flow. This will be achieved by providing
information on material properties, failure modes,
reliability test modules, sensitive design rules,
reliability prediction models, and on the effect of
packaging on reliability. Objectives are also to spread
knowledge amongst partners and make
instrumentation accessible.
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PATENT-dfmm : WP4 “Package Engineering”
The Package Engineering Task Force aims to link
the physical domains of micro nano structure design
and package design in terms of engineering issues,
such as Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA),
procedures for reducing impact of stress and
environment, and stress and assembly process
monitors. Methods of low-cost testing for integrity
utilising in-systems functions together with methods
of modelling a package-environment-device
interaction need to be taken into account.
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PATENT-dfmm : WP5 “Training & Education”
PATENT aims to create a European training hub whose stakeholders wil
be PATENT partners. The portfolio will consist of a cross-institute
MSc programme together with CPD courses and a facilities access
programme. The training activity will be funded to resource partners
to prepare, optimise and integrate training material into high-value
offerings. The programme will be structured to provide added value
to providers and clients, attract high student and delegate numbers
and hence maximise revenue stream to partners (and maximise access
to students).
This collaborative structure aims to deliver to partners the optimal
Commercialisation route for their skills, and professional
coordination of training IP.
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PATENT-dfmm : WP6 “Networking & Dissemination”…
The objectives of the Dissemination and Networking task force (WP6) are
to market the project's "virtual laboratory" services and to get feedback on
industry's needs for these services. The project's objectives, work plan,
and achievements need to be (constantly) communicated, discussed,
and reflected with users of the Virtual Laboratory Services.
PATENT-DfMM is working closely with other groups to coordinate research
and services in DfMM. A first workshop had been organised together with
the NEXUS Methodology Working Group "Design Modelling Simulation
(MWG DMS)" at DTIP
(link to http://tima.imag.fr/conferences/dtip/DTIP2004) in Montreux on
11 May 2004. Close cooperation with MEMS Industry Group in the USA and
their METRIC 2004 conference is also planned.
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PATENT-dfmm : …WP6 “Networking & Dissemination”
PATENT-DfMM has set up an Industry Advisory Board, which is
coordinated through WP6 in close cooperation with the project
coordinator.
PATENT-DfMM has established the National Institute for R&D
in Microtechnologies (IMT), Bucharest, Romania as a special point of
contact to the Eastern countries within WP6. IMT has the task to
support the Management Board in addressing partners in the new EU
member states and the ACC, especially with dissemination,
training, and networking activities. The special needs of users of
PATENT-DfMM services in the East will also be identified
and taken care of.
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PATENT-dfmm : WP7 “Business Development”
The project aims to initiate integration and growth in DfMM skills and capability,
however, the long-term objective is to set-up a financially sustainable organisation
that provides a DfMM service to European Industry. This workpackage is responsible
for pulling together the project results and utilising these results to establish the service.
The actions that are covered by this activity are therefore:
1. The maintanance of a skills and resources database that identifies the key
technology providers, equipment and skills together with modes of access.
2. The compilation of a rolling buisness plan over the course of the project based on
market needs, visits to partner institutes and feedback from the IAB.
3. The maintanance of a grant scheme to fund activities that can clearly contribute
to this buisness plan.
4. Providing business development support to the virtual laboratories in each
technical area of PATENT-DfMM
5. Summerising integration achieved and identifying new integration opportunities.
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PATENT-dfmm : WP8 “Project Management”
The project is coordinated by Lancaster University and
managed by a board who's constitution comprises of the
workpackage leaders and the chair of the Industrial Advisory
Board. This board makes final decisions on funding
allocations through a requisition process. The board
members / workpackage Leaders are elected on an annual
basis by the project assembly that consists of representatives
of all project partners
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