UMass Amherst hosts the Nextflex workshop "CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN PRINT AND ROLL-TO-ROLL MANUFACTURING" (10/16/2018)

WORKSHOP: SCALABLE MANUFACTURING METHODS FOR FLEXIBLE HYBRID ELECTRONICS

"CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN PRINT AND ROLL-TO-ROLL MANUFACTURING"

  • Date: October 16-18, 2018
  • Location: UMass Amherst Life Science Laboratories, Amherst, MA

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The following confirmed speakers and panelists will focus on emerging capabilities in print and roll-to-roll manufacturing and look at new devices and application-specific manufacturing requirements

  • Ben Leever, Air Force Research Laboratory
  • John Berg, Carpe Diem
  • Milan Raj, Epicore
  • Jason Marsh, NextFlex
  • Scott Miller, NextFlex
  • Stan Farnsworth, NovaCentrix
  • Miko Cakmak, Purdue University
  • Jeff Morse, UMass Amherst
  • Jim Watkins, UMass Amherst
  • Dan Frisbee, University of Minnesota
  • Devin MacKenzie, University of Washington
  • Sameh Dardona, UTRC

In addition, processes that benefit from continuous coating, patterning and integration strategies will be discussed, along with challenges and opportunities associated with future process-flows for scaled-up manufacturing.

 

Actionable Tasks and Upcoming Project Calls

The workshop concludes with facilitated breakout discussions based on the topics below that will generate actionable tasks giving attendees a chance to influence upcoming funded project calls.

  • FHE Applications: Wearable and Human Health Monitoring
  • FHE Applications: IoT and Asset Monitoring
  • Integration and Process Scale-up