International Study of Hybrid Flexible Electronics

Kickoff Meeting 12/3/8

Duane Shelton

August 27, 2008

WTEC mission

Inform U.S. agencies, universities, and research community of science and technology abroad in critical fields

World Technology Evaluation Center, Inc.

Baltimore, Lancaster, Johnstown, Arlington.

Acknowledgements

…and over 400 expert panelists, thousands of foreign hosts

Why Conduct International Assessments?

Guide U. S. R&D investments Look for good ideas abroad (tech

transfer) Find opportunities for cooperation Compare U.S. status with that abroad Justify investment in R&D. Pointing

with alarm is an example

Why Point with Alarm?

Research and education are changing rapidly abroad Greatly increased investments are producing

substantial outputs—we can learn from abroad Further, since we care about U.S. leadership of

engineering, we need more resources to compete Pointing with alarm can be a motivator, e.g. Rising

Above the Gathering Storm -> ACI, America COMPETES Act

Kostoff has shown that the PRC has passed the U.S. in scientific papers in Compendex

WTEC Past:Over 60 Studies Since 1989

Brain-Computer Interfaces (DOD, NSF, NIBIB, NINDS, 2 foundations)

Catalysis by Nanostructured Materials (NSF, DOE, AFOSR, DTRA)

Simulation-Based Engineering & Science (24 programs at 4 agencies)

WTEC also staffs the Nanotechnology Coordination Office and Inter-Agency working groups, and provides workshops

WTEC Future International Studies

Stem cells for tissue engineering Spinal cord injury Personal and service robots Hybrid flexible electronics

WTEC Methods

Write grant proposals that can pass peer review

Establish a coalition of sponsors who have resources to make it happen

Recruit a great panel from Government nominations

Conduct the study effectively; Government participates in decisions—like where to go

Maintain good host relations, so we can return in future studies

Publish an outstanding report

From Draft Statement of Work

What is the position of foreign R&D relative to the U.S.?

What are the barriers in development that can be learned abroad?

What are the innovations and ideas that are worth exploring in the U.S.?

What are the opportunities for international collaboration?

Dec 08 Kickoff Meeting

Mar 09 U.S. Baseline Workshop (Optional)

May 09 Study Tour Europe

Jun 09 Study Tour Asia (Optional)

Jul 09 Final workshop at NSF

Aug 09 Final report draft

Proposed Timeline

Sponsorship Benefits: International Assessment Study

Leverage of full study for price of a workshop Advances interagency cooperation Recognition in report and website Advance review of report Ideas for initiatives and cooperation Find out what your counterparts abroad are up

to

Basic International Assessment Study

4-person panel of U.S. experts Kickoff meeting with panel Advance work to pick sites and get access Study about 20 sites in one week (in Europe) Workshop to present findings to professional

community, with proceedings Written report: Introduction, Exec Summary plus 4

technical chapters, appendix has site report for each site

NSF (ENG and ECCS) has committed $160K for this

Some Options for a Broader Study

Additional study tour in second region—Asia ($140K)

U.S. baseline workshop ($40K) More panelists for broader scope

($40K each 1-area, $60K 2-areas) Book by major publisher ($30K)

Impacts: Initiatives

DARPA Flat Panel Displays Initiative DOD/DOC Electronic Packaging Initiative NTSC Electronics Manufacturing Initiative National Nanotechnology Initiative Benign Manufacturing MUSES Program Spin Electronics Program Announcement Tissue Engineering Strategic Plan

More Informaton

Web site at wtec.org Ben’s presentation on WTEC methods

later Shelton at 717-659-7714 or

shelton@wtec.org

Distinguished Panelists

NSF Director (Colwell) Directors of DOE Office of Science (Trivelpiece,

Dresselhaus) Chief of Naval Research (Mooney) Director of NIGMS (Cassman) Chief Scientist of the USAF (Feigenbaum) Vice presidents for research of IBM, Bell Labs,

Seagate Technology Presidents or provosts of UC (Berkeley, San Diego

and UC system) and Rensselaer Over 400 other engineers and scientists

Report Editing

Our reports are of academic quality with full citations, etc.

Analytical chapters written by experts Site reports are merely an appendix

They are edited several times We always have to extract chapters

from holdouts Published in 9 books; we now have an

international technology series with Springer with 4 published

Researchers have developed a rubber that is able to conduct electricity well, paving the way for robots with stretchable "e-skin" that can feel heat and pressure like humans.. "Objects that come into contact with humans are often not square or flat. We believe interfaces between humans and electronics should be soft." Takao Someya, University of Tokyo, in Science August 7, 2008

E-skin for Robots -- From Japan

A Hybrid Flexible Camera System—from Illinois

"We believe that some of the most compelling areas of future application involve the intimate, conformal integration of electronics with the human body, in ways that are inconceivable using established technologies." "This approach allows us to put electronics in places where we couldn't before. We can now, for the first time, move device design beyond the flatland constraints of conventional systems." John Rogers, Nature, August 7, 2008