Projects of the Continuation Program, 2021-2024

In a comprehensive review and selection process, the Steering Committee selected eight new research projects for the SFA-AM continuation program 2021-2024. These projects address the key challenges in the newly defined Technical Focus Areas 2021-2024. They will start in the second quarter of 2021 and will have a duration of four years. The consortia will receive funding of in total more than 12 million CHF.

Advancing Manufacturability of Hybrid Organic-inorganic Semiconductors for Large Area Optoelectronics

Ultrafast Laser Closed-loop Manufacturing using mid-IR Spectroscopy

Digitally Printed Temporary Protective Films for Application in the Watch Industry

Manufacturing of Actuators Integrated in Active Exoskeletons

Functional Integration for Rapid Realization of Microreactors and Bio-assays

Multi-material laser powder-bed fusion

Highly Scaled Gravure Printing

Fast Optimization of Additively Manufactured Metallic Parts with a Combination of Adaptive Feedforward Control and Numerical Simulation

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Addressed Technical Focus Areas

Most of the selected research projects address more than one of the four Technical Focus Areas 2021-2024. In the table below you see which project (rows) is related to which Technical Focus Areas (columns).

	Manufacturing Technologies	Functionality Integration	Sensing Technologies	Intelligent Systems & Advanced Automation
AMYS	x	x
ClosedLoop-LM	x
DiPrintProtect	x
MANUFHAPTICS	x	x
Microfluidics		x
Multi-Mat	x	x		x
SCALAR	x
SMARTAM	x		x	x