Thematics: Nano and Microtechnologies POLITEHNICA UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST Representative person Anton Ficai E-Mail Established in Social capital (thousands of €) City, Postal code No, Street County/district anton_ficai81@yahoo.com 1948 - Legal structure Turnover -in previous year(thousands of €) Bucharest, 060042 313, Splaiul Independentei Romania UPB Position Lecturer Mobile (available at the event) UNI 87.000 Phone Fax URL 0040766257852 Employees No. Exports -in previous year(thousands of €) 2713 - +40213181000 +40213181001 www.pub.ro Company Profile Politehnica University of Bucharest has about 20000 students belonging to 15 faculties. Politehnica University of Bucharest has been classified in the first category of universities in the country as an Advanced Research and Educational University. Politehnica University of Bucharest has also a number of 44 research centers on different fields of activity. Within the Nano and Microtechnologies topics there are 4 research centers. Our university is a full member in several academic organisations, the main ones being Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research (CESAER), International Association of Universities (IAU), European University Association (EUA), Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) etc. However, UPB paid a special attention to bilateral cooperation agreements (around 200 accords) with similar universities, mainly from Europe, Japan, or the United States of America. The total figures, for the time period 2007-2009, are significant: a) 1203 new R&D applications, for public national and international calls for projects, with the rate of success of approx. 50%; b) 2064 national public funded R&D contracts, 183 international public funded R&D contracts and 168 company financed R&D contracts; c) 582 PhD thesis finalized; d) 1338 papers in ISI quoted revues, 1101 papers in other Indexed Data Bases (SCOPUS, Engineeringvillage) and NURC (B+ and B) quoted revues, 3699 papers published in proceedings of international major conferences; e) 951 scientific books (monographs and treaties) published in Romania (having NURC recognition) and abroad; f) 87 granted patents.Concerning the calls for projects mentioned above, UPB was active in all national programs (NURC and Romanian Academy Grants Program, Excellency Research and 2-nd National R&D Plan – Partnership, Capacities, Ideas, Human Resources, Innovation), international programs (Fp6, Fp7, CIP, NATO, PHARE, Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci, COST, EUREKA, bilateral agreements) and structural funds programs. Projects and/or Services Proposed Projects 1.MODERN, NON-CONVENTIONAL PROCESS WITH ELECTRICAL FLUXES CONCENTRATED ON MULTIFUNCTIONAL MACHINES WITH COMPOSITES STRUCTURES The main objective is the accomplishment of a multifunctional machine, witch to offer the possibility of the elaboration and the application of the processing technologies, on the same equipment-of electro-erosion, electrochemistry, complex electro-erosion, electro-chemical-thermal treatment, witch to improve the productivity. The technological system should be conceived in modular system to belay the next processing process: electro-erosion with massive electrode, wire electro-erosion, electro-chemical processing, electro-chemical-thermal (treatment), mechanical processing (complex electro-erosion), coverage among spark. The system will assure the specific cinematic of the used processing procedures. The mechanical solicitations are practically ignored, being generated by the specific weight of the pieces- specific advantage of the unconventional technologies. The integration of all this technologies with electrical fluxes concentrated on a multifunctional equipment constitute a novelty on the world plane. Passing through a procedure to another could be done only after the technological enclosure was cleaned with the help of the cleaning technology under pressure. There are important the commands of the processing axes, the integration and the management of the work liquid and the flexibility of the equipment. The project will be realized by a consortium which should include specialists from the mechanics, automatics and robotics, adaptive technologies, sensors, composite materials, chemical industries. Technology Profile Electro-erosion, Adaptive technologies, Electro-thermal-chemical - technologies Certifications SR EN ISO 9001:2008, SR EN ISO 14001:2005, OHSAS 18001:2008 Character of activities [please check the appropriate activities] Research Development Training & education Technology transfer Consulting Others Areas of specialization [please check the appropriate specializations, maximum 6 options] Microengineering Microbiology Micromachining Nanotechnologies related electronics and microelectronics to Micro- and Nanotechnology related to Biological sciences Food Microbiology / Toxicology / Quality Control Nanotechnologies related to electronics and microelectronics Others Areas of application [please check the appropriate area of applications, maximum 6 options] Education & Training / Banking / Insurance / Financial Acc. / Stock Entertainment Exchange Engineering Industries Printing & Publishing / Advertising Defense Travel, Hotel & Leisure Industries Health & Medical Information gathering and services Telecommunications Test and measurement Transport / Ports Public Admin. / Office Automation Peripherals Technologies (Mass Data Storage, Display Technologies) related to electronics and microelectronics Micro-Mechanics Micro- and Nanotechnology related to physical and exact sciences Manufacturing / Retail / Trading & Distribution Automotive Wireless Apparel Industry Electronics / Robotics Others Aims, cooperation fields and forms Research & Development Technology Transfer International programs Technical co-operation European programmes Joint venture agreement Contact person Daniel GHICULESCU Position Assoc. Prof. PhD. Eng. E-Mail liviudanielghiculescu@yahoo.com Mobile 0040743132039 Projects and/or Services 2.RESEARCHES CONCERNING LASER BEAM MICROMACHINING AIDED BY ULTRASONICS Researches Concerning Laser Beam Micromachining Aided by Ultrasonics (microLBM+US) aim at increasing of machining rate, precision and surface quality of machined surfaces. Due to cavitational phenomena ultrasonically induced within the melted material produced by laser pulses, the amount of removed material is increased, the resolidified material is decreased and consequently, the output technological parameters are significantly improved. The influence of the ultrasonic frequency, amplitude and oscillation direction of the workpiece will be the topics to be approached in the relation with the parameters of Laser Beam Micromachining. The different types of lasers will be used with solid and gaseous state medium, wave length, pulse energy, contouring types (microholes, linear, trepanning, spiraling etc.), laser spot dimensions, relative incidence angle against surface to be machined, focalization level etc. The effect of ultrasonic assistance on different kind of materials from high alloyed steels to different types of composite materials will be studied. The project is framed within the actual trend of micromachining development with large scale of applications, aiming at the improvement of its technological performances. Technology Profile Concentrated energies technologies of material removal Proposed Project Research Training & education Character of activities [please check the appropriate activities] X Development Technology transfer Consulting Others Areas of specialization [please check the appropriate specializations, maximum 6 options] Microengineering Microbiology Peripherals Technologies (Mass Data Storage, Display Technologies) related to electronics and microelectronics Micromachining X Food Microbiology / Micro-Mechanics Toxicology / Quality Control Nanotechnologies related to Nanotechnologies related to Micro- and Nanotechnology related electronics and microelectronics electronics and microelectronics to physical and exact sciences Micro- and Nanotechnology related to Others Biological sciences Areas of application [please check the appropriate area of applications, maximum 6 options] Education & Training / Banking / Insurance / Financial Acc. / Stock Manufacturing / Retail / Trading & Entertainment Exchange Distribution Engineering Industries X Printing & Publishing / Advertising Automotive Defense X Travel, Hotel & Leisure Industries Wireless Health & Medical Information gathering and services Apparel Industry Telecommunications X Test and measurement Electronics / Robotics Transport / Ports Public Admin. / Office Automation Others Aims, cooperation fields and forms Research & Development Technology Transfer International programs X Technical co-operation European programmes X Joint venture agreement Contact person E-Mail X Daniel GHICULESCU Position Associate Professor liviudanielghiculescu@yahoo.com Mobile 0040724209377 X X X Projects and/or Services 3.NANOFINISHING OF THE COMPLEX SURFACES BY ABRASIVE FLOW USING REOPECTIC MEDIUMS WITH MAGNETIC PROPERTIES The main objective of the project is to develop some new nanofinishing technologies for complex surfaces by using focused energy sources and fluid mediums with special properties, especial reopectic and magnetic properties. In this way, the purpose is to obtain a technological system for nanofinishing of the complex surfaces using abrasive flowing, with reopectic mediums which have magnetic properties. The novelty of this is the achievement of a reopectic medium, in which there are inserted abrasive particles with magnetic properties. This medium will be actuated in a rotating magnetic field, in order to be focused in any area which is imposed by the processing process. The fluid medium, by the viscosity variation have to ensure forces which are big enough to process a large variety of materials. A special requirement for this technology is to achieve abrasive action only in the effective area of processing, the rest of the surfaces being protected against the abrasion. The project is relevant for the development of a technology specific to manufacturing the parts with complex surfaces, which require nanofinishing, in industries like machine building, food, electronics, pharmacy, medicine etc. Technology Profile Nanofinishing technology, Abrasive Flow Machining Certifications SR EN ISO 9001:2008, SR EN ISO 14001:2005, OHSAS 18001:2008 Proposed Projects Research Training & education Character of activities [please check the appropriate activities] Development Technology transfer Consulting Others Areas of specialization [please check the appropriate specializations, maximum 6 options] Microengineering Microbiology Peripherals Technologies (Mass Data Storage, Display Technologies) related to electronics and microelectronics Micromachining Food Microbiology / Micro-Mechanics Toxicology / Quality Control Nanotechnologies related to Nanotechnologies related to Micro- and Nanotechnology related electronics and microelectronics electronics and microelectronics to physical and exact sciences Micro- and Nanotechnology related to Others Biological sciences Areas of application [please check the appropriate area of applications, maximum 6 options] Education & Training / Banking / Insurance / Financial Acc. / Stock Manufacturing / Retail / Trading & Entertainment Exchange Distribution Engineering Industries Printing & Publishing / Advertising Automotive Defense Travel, Hotel & Leisure Industries Wireless Health & Medical Information gathering and services Apparel Industry Telecommunications Test and measurement Electronics / Robotics Transport / Ports Public Admin. / Office Automation Others Aims, cooperation fields and forms Research & Development Technology Transfer International programs Technical co-operation European programmes Joint venture agreement Contact person E-Mail Nicolae IONESCU Position Prof. Ionescu_upb@yahoo.com Mobile 0040741114987 Projects and/or Services 4. 2 nm Quantum Optical LithographyOptical lithography is a key technique in the development of semiconductor industry. However, diffraction effects limit the minimal resolvable feature size to the Rayleigh diffraction limit of λ/2, where λ is the optical wavelength. Many technologies have been proposed in the past to replace optical lithography. Here, we approach a new quantum optical method to do subwavelength lithography1-14 which is realizable by our current technology now. 2 nm width lines could be written in novel materials such as fluorescent photosensitive glassceramics by a quantum multiphoton confinement effect. Exposure to the focus laser diode beam (λ = 650 nm) writes high-density lines with 4 nm pitch on the sample surface at room temperature, far beyond the diffraction limit, a fundamental barrier to the exploitation of optical lithography. 2 nm Quantum Optical Lithography is an important step to enable full-wafer-level nanofabrication at this resolution. Fluorescent photosensitive glassceramics contain rare-earths. The cerium (Ce3+) ion plays the role of photosensitizer, which releases an electron to become Ce4+ by exposure to UV light irradiation. The absorption band is located at 310 nm. Photoelectrons reduce the silver ions nearby to form silver atoms. Diffusion and coalescence processes determine silver atoms to form clusters. In fluorescent photosensitive glass-ceramics both processes occur at room temperature during laser recording. UV excitation is a single-photon event, while red light excitation (λ = 650 nm) is a multiphoton process, in which various compositions in the fluorescent photosensitive glass-ceramics contribute electrons to silver ions. The development of 2 nm Quantum Optical Lithography offers a great potential for nanoelectronics and many issues in photonics, material science, chemistry and molecular biology. The project, stated on our last research results, must now jumping to a real world of semiconducting technologies, but we have need a lot of money and contacts with important manufacturer. In the same time research activities will be continued in order to decrease limit of optical lithography at atomic or subatomic level. We will be focused on both directions, new fluorescent photosensitive glass-ceramics and new optical methods writing technologies. Character of activities [please check the appropriate activities] Research Development Consulting Training & education Technology transfer Others Proposed Projects Areas of specialization [please check the appropriate specializations, maximum 6 options] Microengineering Microbiology Peripherals Technologies (Mass Data Storage, Display Technologies) related to electronics and microelectronics Micromachining Food Microbiology / Micro-Mechanics Toxicology / Quality Control Nanotechnologies related to Nanotechnologies related to Micro- and Nanotechnology related electronics and microelectronics electronics and microelectronics to physical and exact sciences Micro- and Nanotechnology related to Others Biological sciences Areas of application [please check the appropriate area of applications, maximum 6 options] Education & Training / Banking / Insurance / Financial Acc. / Stock Manufacturing / Retail / Trading & Entertainment Exchange Distribution Engineering Industries Printing & Publishing / Advertising Automotive Defense Travel, Hotel & Leisure Industries Wireless Health & Medical Information gathering and services Apparel Industry Telecommunications Test and measurement Electronics / Robotics Transport / Ports Public Admin. / Office Automation Others Aims, cooperation fields and forms Research & Development Technology Transfer International programs Technical co-operation European programmes Joint venture agreement Contact person E-Mail Jinga Sorin sorinionjinga@yahoo.com Position Mobile (available at the event) prof. 0721253065 Proposed Projects: Creating, analyzing and processing layers coated surfaces, tribological performance, nanomicrometer scale Projects and/or Services 5. Formation of antifriction layers The project aims is formation of antifriction layers, by route mechanical/physical, chemical and, in especially modern research methodology and manufacturing polishing, to the development of technical systems characterized by operating parameters with high limits, high life and high reliability. Atomic forces microscope (AFM) has become a veritable tool for investigating local mechanical properties. In addition, through interaction with the AFM tipsurface layer, became possible and the study of perturbation effects and changes in surface layers. Accurate knowledge of their response by continuous scanning with the AFM may help to design new materials with desired mechanical properties. The issues addressed in the project is typical of sliding tribosystems, rolling, rolling with slip that that at the beginning of operation between elements in contact friction couples are formed, almost a third body, leading to the emergence of a "state of antifriction "and not be confused with the antifriction properties of bodies in contact. One way to create state of antifriction is the selective transfer that occurs in mature material data and special lubricants. It is known that in the process of sliding the two materials in the presence of lubricants suitable wear process acts as a transfer material from one element to another friction couple. This transfer is possible when there is a favorable energy and this relative motion, if in the area of friction is a copper-based alloys suitable lubricant (glycerin or lubricating particular). So, the paper analyzes the tribological aspects of friction couples with consideration of the phenomenon of selective transfer which results in the formation of a nanometric antifriction layer and its implications in good working condition and increases their reliability as an effect of reducing friction and wear. Surface layer formed by selective transfer, like any other material, is not perfectly smooth on a microscopic scale, but rather with small surface roughness. Manufacturing surface layer is conduct by the mechanism of removal chemical mechanical polishing (CMP). To understand the mechanism of removal by CMP, an AFM is used to characterize surface polishing layer formed by transfer, after a series of polishing experiments. To optimize the CMP polishing process is needed to obtain information about the interaction between particles of abrasive polishing solution and polishing surface. To study these interactions, we used an AFM also to reveal in detail the characteristics of the surface by CMP. Technology Profile [name the main technologies used] Micro-nanotechnology through Chemical Mechanical Planarizotion/ Polishing (CMP) Research Training & education Character of activities [please check the appropriate activities] X Development X Technology transfer X Consulting Others Areas of specialization [please check the appropriate specializations, maximum 6 options] Microengineering X Microbiology Peripherals Technologies (Mass Data Storage, Display Technologies) related to electronics and microelectronics Micromachining X Food Microbiology / Micro-Mechanics Toxicology / Quality Control Nanotechnologies related to Nanotechnologies related to Micro- and Nanotechnology related electronics and microelectronics electronics and microelectronics to physical and exact sciences Micro- and Nanotechnology related to Others Biological sciences Areas of application [please check the appropriate area of applications, maximum 6 options] Education & Training / Banking / Insurance / Financial Acc. / Stock Manufacturing / Retail / Trading & Entertainment Exchange Distribution Engineering Industries X Printing & Publishing / Advertising Automotive Defense Travel, Hotel & Leisure Industries Wireless Health & Medical Information gathering and services Apparel Industry Telecommunications Test and measurement X Electronics / Robotics Transport / Ports X Public Admin. / Office Automation Others Aims, cooperation fields and forms Research & Development Technology Transfer International programs European programmes Representative person E-Mail Technical co-operation X Filip Ilie fillip@meca.omtr.pub.ro Joint venture agreement Position Mobile (available at the event) X X Prof 0040741045356 X X X X X X Projects and/or Services 6.Nature inspired micro fluidic manipulation system. Although, initially, micro fluidics started as an engineering research domain, later on, it extended beyond the traditional area of development of inkjet head and pressure sensors to areas such as drug delivery, chemical synthesis, protein crystallization, cell culture, point-of-care diagnostics, genetic sequencing, drug discovery, genomics, and proteomics. The current project deals with a completely novel method of fluid manipulation technology in micro fluidic systems, inspired by nature, namely by the mechanisms found in ciliates, that is an array of beating cilia over the external surface of micro-organisms or the surface of particular inner organs. However, local fluid manipulation and/or mixing is very hard to achieve, i.e. the fluid in the micro fluidic system is driven or mixed in a global, uniform, sense. In many biosensors it would be very advantageous to be able to locally manipulate the fluid, i.e. to achieve local mixing or routing of fluids. The cilia-based micro fluidic system and the magnetic actuation mechanisms can offer these key advantages over the existing and known micro-fluidics principles. Proposed Projects Research Training & education Character of activities [please check the appropriate activities] Development Technology transfer Consulting Others Areas of specialization [please check the appropriate specializations, maximum 6 options] Aerospace Technology Space Exploration and Astrophysics / Cosmology Technology Aeronautical technology / Avionics Meteorology / Climatology Satellite Navigation Systems Aircraft Biosensors Temperature monitoring Helicopter Moisture sensors Others Areas of application [please check the appropriate area of applications, maximum 6 options] Education & Training / Banking / Insurance / Financial Acc. / Stock Manufacturing / Retail / Trading & Entertainment Exchange Distribution Engineering Industries Printing & Publishing / Advertising Automotive Defense Travel, Hotel & Leisure Industries Wireless Health & Medical Information gathering and services Apparel Industry Telecommunications Test and measurement Electronics / Robotics Transport / Ports Public Admin. / Office Automation Others Aims, cooperation fields and forms Research & Development Technology Transfer International programs European programmes Contact person E-Mail Technical co-operation X Dragos ISVORANU ddisvoranu@gmail.com Joint venture agreement Position Lecturer Mobile (available at the event) 0040730047064 X