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Delivering a new, key enabling technology that will drive the development of far-reaching advances in photonics, nanotechnology and advanced manufacturing

Descrizione del progetto

Verso sensori di luce più piccoli ed efficienti

I progressi compiuti nel campo dei sensori e il crescente utilizzo dell’elettronica di consumo e di prodotti automobilistici, informatici e di telecomunicazione dovrebbero alimentare la crescita del mercato dei sensori. Partendo da questo presupposto, il progetto ActLight, finanziato dall’UE, aspira a cambiare radicalmente l’approccio al rilevamento della luce. Sviluppando una tecnologia di sensori fotonici all’avanguardia, si propone di migliorare notevolmente l’efficienza e la precisione delle applicazioni di rilevamento della luce. Attraverso i progressi tecnologici che ha pianificato, il progetto sarà in grado di soddisfare le esigenze dei clienti e degli utenti finali fornendo sensori ad alte prestazioni e a basso consumo energetico nelle applicazioni di prossima generazione.

Obiettivo

ActLight specializes in the developing cutting-edge photonics sensor technology and licensing the intellectual property (IP), as well as providing supporting services like design and technology advice to customers.
Our team consists of experts in the fields of devices, materials, integration process, characterization techniques, circuits design, marketing and business development. IP protection and sales are performed by top experts located in US, Japan, and Switzerland. Our advisory board includes leading industrial and scientific experts.
ActLight’s Dynamic Photodiode technology represents a paradigm shift in light sensing. Its deployment will substantially improve the efficiency and accuracy of various light sensing applications such as Time-Of-Flight-based distance measuring and gesture control, heart-rate monitoring, 3D cameras and much more. ActLight operates in diverse markets-smartphones and wearable devices, healthcare, autonomous cars, drones and robotics, and more.
We are in initial negotiations to conduct pilot programs with leading semiconductor companies, for the next-generation light sensing components required by their OEM customers.
The sensors market is very fragmented. In this phase 1 project, we aim to identify the market verticals which can be reached first, and where we will have a significant advantage with respect to competitors. We need to understand which new applications will be still relevant in 3 years, when we will launch our new technology. We are implementing a product-feedback development loop with target customers currently at the vanguard of their market segments.
The advances we are developing on our existing technology will allow it to more easily move into target market verticals that require increasingly smaller and more powerful light sensors. Our largest potential customers and end users require high-performance, low energy consumption sensors for next-generation applications.

Campo scientifico (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifica i progetti con EuroSciVoc, una tassonomia multilingue dei campi scientifici, attraverso un processo semi-automatico basato su tecniche NLP.

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H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020

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Bando secondario

H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1

Meccanismo di finanziamento

SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1

Coordinatore

ACTLIGHT SA
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 50 000,00
Indirizzo
EPFL INNOVATION PARK, BUILDING I
1015 LAUSANNE
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Regione
Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Région lémanique Vaud
Tipo di attività
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 71 429,00