MITICS (964677)

  https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/964677

  Horizon 2020 (2014-2020)

  Mixed Ionic and electronic Transport In Conjugated polymers for bioelectronicS

  FET-Open Challenging Current Thinking (FETOPEN-01-2018-2019-2020)

  other biological topics  ·  polymer sciences  ·  microelectronics

  2021-02-01 Start Date (YY-MM-DD)

  2025-01-31 End Date (YY-MM-DD)

  € 3,184,036 Total Cost

  Description

MITICS will interface living systems with modern microelectronics creating major breakthroughs notably in healthcare. We target alternative materials, advanced processing know-how and insights in device architectures to reach the following main twofold objective: Develop high-gain (> 15) and low-power complementary circuits based on Organic ElectroChemical Transistors (OECTs) to be used as amplifying transducers and design ultra-conformable OECT arrays that mitigate losses in signal quality (signal-to-noise ratio > 30dB higher than conventional electrodes), enabling less invasive Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs). To reach this overarching objective, we envision a radically-new science-enabled technology that rests on a completely novel material engineering approach combined with highly advanced characterization methods. We will take advantage of a unique molecular architecture strategy spatially separating ion- and electron-transport pathways to ensure volumetric ion injection and transport in order to optimize the uptake and release of ions in the transistor channel and to promote efficient, long-range, electronic charge transport so as to maximize the response of the transistors to very weak signals. In contrast to field-effect transistors, where charge flows through a thin interfacial region, the identifying characteristic of OECTs I s that polymer doping occurs over the entire volume of the channel, thereby allowing for large modulations in drain current at low-gate voltages. We will seek for organic material architectures maximizing the electronic mobility volumetric capacitance, develop high-gain and low-power complementary circuits based on printed OECTs, and use these as amplifying transducers in the context of Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) that mitigate losses in signal quality due to the dura, the skull and the scalp, thereby enabling less-invasive BCIs.

  Complicit Organisations

1 Israeli organisation participates in MITICS.