The concept of the MULTILAYER project is illustrated in the schematic below

Description of the process steps of MULTILAYER

It is not the intention of the MULTILAYER project to fully develop new production technologies, as this is beyond the scope of the project, but to adapt, hybridise and further integrate technologies that individually have already been demonstrated. The main innovation brought by the project will lie in the integration of technologies that are seen as very promising from an industrial point of view but that are not yet compatible with large scale and low cost manufacturing of ceramic multifunctional micro devices. This approach guarantees the impact of the MULTILAYER project on the industrial participants by reducing the cost of development.

The “Rolled multi material layered 3D shaping technology” will have several advantages:

• it will be an efficient mass production tool with an output of over a million units in a single fabrication series,
• it will have the flexibility to manufacture a wide variety of possible component designs,
• it will allow the incorporation of different materials as different layers thus enabling the manufacture of multi-material multi-layered packages with a high degree of integration, the process will be extremely reliable with the facility for each layer to be rigorously inspected.