Descripción del proyecto
THE PROJECT SMALL ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT NANOPHOTONIC STRUCTURES INTEGRATION BY LASER PROCESSES FOR LIGHT EMISSION AND SENSING (SENSIL) HAS BEEN CONCEIVED TO TACKLE DIRECTLY CHALLENGE 5 (CLIMATE CHANGE AND EFFICIENT USE OF NATURAL AND RAW MATERIALS) AND INDIRECTLY CHALLENGE 1 (HEALTH, DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE AND WELLBEING) OF THE PLAN ESTATAL DE INVESTIGACION CIENTIFICA Y TECNICA Y DE INNOVACION 2017-20 BY USING PHOTONICS AS A KEY ENABLING TECHNOLOGY,SENSIL IS A MULTIDISCIPLINARY AND INNOVATIVE RESEARCH ACTION DESIGNED TO SCALE DOWN THE DIMENSION OF PHOTONIC DEVICES BY USING INNOVATIVE LASER-BASED PROCESSES, IN THIS CONTEXT, THE MULTIANNUAL 2014-2020 STRATEGIC ROADMAP OF THE EUROPEAN TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM PHOTONICS21 (RM2020) CLEARLY IDENTIFIES LASER MANUFACTURING AS A GREEN TECHNOLOGY, WITH A SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION IN THE CONSUMPTION OF ENERGY, CHEMICALS, AND WATER, FURTHERMORE, THE USE OF SMALL AMOUNTS OF MATERIALS IN THE NANOPHOTONIC STRUCTURES ENSURES A SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION IN THE USE OF RAW MATERIALS, THE LASER PROCESSING GROUP OF THE INSTITUTO DE OPTICA (LPG-IO) EXPERT IN LASER PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR PHOTONIC APPLICATIONS WILL CARRY OUT THIS PROJECT BASED ON THE UNIQUE KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPED IN OUR PREVIOUS PROJECT PHOTOMANA (TEC2015- 69916-C2-1-R) AND BENEFITING FROM THE SYNERGIES FROM THE CURRENT EU CONTRACT WITHIN THE NANOSCREEN H2020 PLATFORM, AT THIS TIME WE ARE IN A OUTSTANDING POSITION TO ADDRESS THE NEW PROPOSED TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES AND TO IMPLEMENT INNOVATIVE CONCEPTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF (1) LIGHT EMITTERS BASED IN THE USE OF EMERGENT 2D SEMICONDUCTORS AS ACTIVE ELEMENTS FOR LIGHT EMISSION, AND (2) OPTICAL SENSING COMPONENTS BASED IN METAL-DIELECTRIC METASURFACES FOR THE DETECTION OF BIOLOGICAL MOLECULAR SUBSTANCES RELATED NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES, AND THUS IMPACTING TO THE HEALTH CHALLENGE, FROM A SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL POINT OF VIEW THE CONCEPTS, NANOPHOTONIC COMPONENTS AND LASER PROCESSES THAT WILL BE DEVELOPED WITHIN SENSIL ARE AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND WILL APPEAL A BROAD SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY FROM THE AREAS OF PHOTONICS, NANOTECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATERIALS SCIENCE, WITHIN SENSIL WE WILL: 1) DEEPEN THE KNOWLEDGE ON THE MECHANISMS OF PHOTON EMISSION OF 2D SEMICONDUCTOR TRANSITION METAL CHALCOGENIDES AND OXIDES (TMC/OS), AND WE WILL INVESTIGATE THE METHODS TO ACHIEVE THEIR SUCCESSFUL INTEGRATION IN CMOS SILICON BASED TECHNOLOGY, AN ISSUE THAT HAS TREMENDOUS TECHNOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE, AS A RESULT SENSIL AIMS TO OBTAIN ROBUST AND ENHANCED LIGHT EMISSION PROPERTIES FROM THE INTEGRATED 2D SEMICONDUCTOR TMC/OS, 2) DEVELOP STRATEGIES FOR TRIGGERING THE FORMATION OF ORGANIZED ARRAYS OF NANORESONATORS USING FEMTOSECOND AND NANOSECOND LASER PROCESSES IN ORDER TO PRODUCE METASURFACES WITH WAVELENGTH AND POLARIZATION TUNABLE RESPONSE, THESE NEW METASURFACES WILL BE USED TO IMPROVE THE EARLY DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES DETECTION BY OPTICAL SENSING OF BIOLOGICAL SUBSTANCES, 3) DEVELOP OPTICAL CAVITIES TO ENHANCE THE RESPONSE OF RESONANT NANOPHOTONIC STRUCTURES, AND TO PRODUCE PERFECT ABSORBERS SUITABLY FOR ENHANCED SENSING WITH REDUCED ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT, THE SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF SENSIL WILL HAVE A HIGH INTERNATIONAL IMPACT THROUGH THE COLLABORATION WITH OTHER EUROPEAN RESEARCH TEAMS AND COMPANIES, THE PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE RESULTS IN INTERNATIONAL HIGH QUALITY JOURNALS, FOTONICA\NANOTECNOLOGIA\INTEGRACIÓN\PROCESADO LÁSER\EMISION DE LUZ\PLASMÓNICA\SENSORES ÓPTICOS