Task 4.2: Less material in product to reduce e-waste
Objective:
Within this task, EECONE partners strive for significant reduction of material usage to avoid e-waste in terms of components and material on different design levels by the development of innovative components & material-saving technologies to be adopted into future products. Positive effects in comparison to state-of-the-art will be proven through advanced technology-demonstrators and use- case demonstrators for a variety of different application fields, like automotive, medical/health/well- being, aeronautic, to name a few. The EECONE use cases, together with the planned demonstrators, will pave the way toward exploitation into relevant future products with high need for e-waste reduction and are listed in Task 4.1, where also the Task 4.2-developments will provide significant contributions. The addressed design levels driven here in Task 4.2 for e-waste reduction include both component level and system level activities:Components level
- PCB and substrates(resource-optimization for PCB and substrates,thinner substrates as carrier for System-in-Package solutions, SiC, fine line technology for PCB tracks)
- Integrated circuits (Silicon carbide, avoid sub-packages, energy harvesting and energy management for significant reduction of energy storage area)
- Inks
- Magnetic components
- Membrane switches
- Heterogeneous system integration(bare die assembly with printed substrates and functionalized packages)
o Protection and coating layers(Development of functional high-performance coatings based on biomaterials and application to protect electronic components and substates) - Reduction of electronic components(e.g.,for on-board charger,DC-DC converters)
- Energy harvesting(avoidance/reduction of energy storage
- Electronic Control Units
Task Leader : ORBX
Involved Partners : ACO, AT&S, BOSCH_PT, CSEM, DTI, FhG-ISC, HTV, IFAG, IFAT, IFEVS, IMA, LDO, LGE, MelsenTech, ORBX, PRELONIC, PREMO, SAL, SOITEC, SOITEC, Synano, THD, UNIPG, Vitesco
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