Development of technological paths for different industrial scenarios

The first objective of the project is to develop the needed technologies for the manufacturing of a new generation of multifunctional micro devices with highly complex 3D structure for mass marketing. With this objective the project aims to set-up the platform MULTILAYER “Rolled multi material layered 3D shaping technology” for several fabrication routes, in order to provide a reliable set of technologies. This platform will be assessed within the project and the relevance for different kinds of 3D multi-materials products will be evaluated.

MULTILAYER Pilots lines & technological paths

Fabrication of a set of demonstrators to validate the MULTILAYER platform

The MULTILAYER platform will offer the potential to address already existing markets, offering new products at extremely reduced costs. As an example, the project will offer the possibility to reduce the manufacturing costs of cooling systems for automotive lighting systems by a factor of ten compared to existing solutions. Moreover, the project will give birth to a reference solutions for the manufacturing of other emerging large scale markets like microfluidic (medical application, microreaction,…), integrated device packaging with embedded MEMS and optical fibres, microreactors, bioreactors, RF applications, high efficient cooling systems (integrated heat pipes, micro heat-exchangers …), micro sources of energy, actuators and sensors and different types of multimaterial microparts at very large scale.

In order to carry out a large scale validation of the MULTILAYER process, a set of 6 demonstrators will be produced and validated according to the different manufacturing routes set out below.

MULTILAYER's Demonstrators