Matthias Mohaupt, Christian Scheffler, Falk Kemper, Gerd Harnisch, Max Henning, Andreas Rahm, Olivier Sengenès, Bruno Badoil, Pierre-Olivier Antoine, Emilie STeck
LSTM, funded by the EU and ESA, is part of Copernicus, the European Union's Earth observation program for global monitoring. It is one of the six new missions, expanding the capabilities of the current Copernicus space component. The Copernicus Land Surface Temperature Monitoring, LSTM, mission carries a high spatial-temporal resolution thermal infrared sensor to provide observations of land-surface temperature. The mission responds to priority requirements of the agricultural user community for improving sustainable agricultural productivity at field-scale in a world of increasing water scarcity and variability. Land-surface temperature measurements and derived evapotranspiration are key variables to understand and respond to climate variability, manage water resources for agricultural production, predict droughts, and to address land degradation, natural hazards such as fires and volcanoes, coastal and inland water management as well as urban heat island issues [1]. The LSTM satellite is designed and build by Airbus DS in Madrid, while the development and production of the advanced technology instrument is carried out by Airbus DS in Toulouse. The detector plane filter (DPF) assemblies for the SWIR and VIS detector and the filter assembly for intermediate plane filters VNIR (IPF-VNIR) are developed, manufactured, integrated, and tested by Fraunhofer IOF. Optic Balzers Jena (OBJ) is the responsible subcontractor for the VNIR/SWIR filter assemblies and will provide the optical filter coatings. The design of filter assemblies for the detector plane filters of SWIR detector (DPF-SWIR) is developed. The filter assemblies consist of a lower frame and upper frame. Four single filter substrates coated with the bandpass filter layers are integrated into the lower frame. The upper and lower mask apertures are integrated into the upper and lower frame. The design of DPF-SWIR filter assemblies was analyzed by finite element (FE) analysis. The mechanical loads of sine and random vibration and shock are calculated. The modal analysis shows the meet of requirements of first eigenfrequency. The mechanical loads of interface imperfections are analyzed. The thermal loads are also analyzed, in combination with interface mechanical loads. In sum 21 load cases are investigated.
Digital microfluidics (DMF) is an emerging technology for liquid-handling of picoliter- to microliter-sized droplets. It enables individual control over droplets by applying electrical fields to an array of electrodes. Standard DMF devices include four key components: substrates, electrodes, a dielectric layer and hydrophobic layers. This work outlines the fabrication of dielectric layers with a high relative permittivity by inkjet printing. The layers consists of OrmoComp, silver nanoparticles and different solvents. OrmoComp has a relative permittivity of about 2.5. By adding 24.2 vol% of silver nanoparticles the relative permittivity rises to 76. Thereby the operating voltage can be reduced drastically.
The contribution describes the inkjet printing of 3D-optical components and systems, based on the hybrid polymer ORMOCER®, which exhibits not only good optical, but also excellent stability parameters versus environmental conditions such as temperature or radiation. With repeating the printing and UV-curing of single printed layers multiple times, a 3D-shape is formed out of thousands of individual layers. To increase the transmission of the 3D-printed optics a tailored AR-plas® one-step plasma treatment was developed. By varying the plasma parameters, the increase of transmission can be tailored within the whole visible spectrum and thus the overall transmission can be increased from 90% to more than 97%. This ensures the additive manufacturing of individualized 3D-optics with very high performance.
KEYWORDS: Lab on a chip, Organic semiconductors, System integration, Microfluidics, Control systems, Liquids, Diagnostics, Life sciences, Luminescence, Fluorescence spectroscopy
While lab-on-a-chip systems have become more and more widely used in many fields in diagnostics, analytical and life sciences, most of the systems still have to be considered as stationary, typically desktop-sized instruments. While the actual microfluidic cartridge often is comparatively compact, the associated instrument to operate this cartridge remains large, limiting the use of such systems in applications outside of a laboratory environment. Two main aspects contribute to this situation: Detection systems, especially sensitive optical (e.g. fluorescence) detection systems remain relatively large. The fluidic control elements, especially when reagents have to be delivered from a reservoir in the instrument to the cartridge, also contribute to the system size and weight. We have tried to circumvent these problems by integrating both the detection system as well as all required liquid reagents into the disposable microfluidic cartridge. The technology used for the realization of the detection system is the multilayer inkjet-printing of organic semiconductor materials (PEDOT:PSS) in order to create light sources and photodetector elements directly on the cartridge. This printing technology can be seamlessly integrated into the manufacturing workflow of the cartridge fabrication. All liquid reagents (currently 6) for an exemplary immunoassay on this platform are integrated using blisters which can be easily actuated either manually or by a simple linear actuator. Data readout as well as system control are planned to be executed using a smartphone, thereby further reducing the complexity and size of the instrument.
Micro-lens array manufacturing by using an inkjet printing technology allows for the manufacturing of large area arrays on lithographically structured substrates that contain oleophobic and oleophilic surface patterns. An inkjet printing process deposits the high performance, hybrid polymer ORMOCER on the oleophilic pattern. The material forms by means of surface tension and wetting boundaries a lens shape, while the inkjet printing process itself enables for a highly parallel manufacturing of many lenses at the same time. A typical geometrical deviation <2% of the radius of curvature for lenses with diameters of <1 mm, ROC’s of ca. <2 mm and sag heights of <100 microns was achieved. Also a specific lithography processing regime was derived that combines wetting patterns with optical apertures to enable advanced illumination setups like multi-aperture projection.
Inkjet printing is a digital printing technique that is capable of depositing not only inks, but functional materials onto different substrates in an additive way. In this paper, applications of inkjet printed structures for microfluidic lab-on-chip systems are discussed. Such systems are promising for different chemical or biochemical analysis tasks carried out at the Point-of-Care level and therefore due to cost reasons are often fabricated from polymers. The paper discusses inkjetprinted wiring structures and electroactive polymer (EAP) actuators for use in microfluidic lab-on-chip systems. Silver and gold wirings are shown that are fabricated by printing metal nanoparticle inks onto polymer substrates. After printing the structures are sintered using argon plasma sintering, a low-temperature sintering process that is compatible with polymer substrates. The wirings consist of several electrode like structures and contact pads and feature minimum structure sizes of approximately 70 μm. They can be used for electrodes, fluid presence detectors and localized ohmic heaters in lab-on-chip systems. Based on that an all inkjet-printed EAP actuator then is discussed. Membrane-type bending actuators generate deflections of approximately 5 μm when being driven at a resonance frequency of 1.8 kHz with 110 V. Derived from that and assuming passive valves on-chip pumping rates in the range of 0.5 ml/min can be estimated.
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