GREEN AGILE SEMICONDUCTOR PRODUCTION

Project Information

GRASP

Grant agreement ID: 101134936

DOI

10.3030/101134936

EC signature date 17 November 2023

Start date 1 January 2024

End date 31 December 2027

Funded under

• Digital, Industry and Space

Total cost

€ 3 220 641,75

EU contribution

€ 3 215 641,75

Coordinated by

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
Belgium

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - GRASP (GREEN AGILE SEMICONDUCTOR PRODUCTION)

Reporting period: 2024-01-01 to 2025-06-30

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

Flexible Electronics has been one of the fastest developing technologies in recent decades. The traditional path is electronic components such as silicon chips integrated onto flexible substrates called “hybrid integration” or “flexible hybrid electronics”. We believe that this approach is not a viable long-term solution for high-volume, low-cost and conformable integrated smart systems.

Our vision is an integrated smart system that is built with only flexible electronic components including analogue circuitry, digital logic and memories. We call such a system a “Natively Flexible Integrated Smart System” or NFISS. NFISSes will enable new products in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods and mass-market healthcare segments that have not been possible before because conventional silicon chips are too costly, too bulky and not conformable. This will be delivered with 100-1000x reduction in the environmental footprint.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

The developments will include the whole value chain - Hybrid Complementary Low power TFT technology and supporting production process, building blocks (SRAM etc), the first FlexMCU where the instruction set can be configured for a specific domain and application, new assembly processes for fully flexible ICs and finally proof of concept validation in two healthcare validators.

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

The results will be a significant advance on the state of the art, with the resulys enabling Natively Flexible Integrated Smart Systems, which will open up a huge range of new and low cost systems. Just as game changing is that the setup costs are much lower than silicon developments, enabling new applications, especially from innovative SMEs to bridge the gap from "proof of concept" to production - the so-called "valley of death" where the costs to go to production are one of the biggest barriers.

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