HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-TWIN-TRANSITION-05 call, partnership offer

HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-TWIN-TRANSITION-05: Advanced manufacturing technologies for leadership of EU manufacturers in products for the netzero industry (Made in Europe Partnership) (IA)

Our target in this call to meet the following expected outcome:

Increased production capacity for clean technologies, diversifying supply sources, and ensuring high environmental standards.

To meet this outcome, we offer alternative material and technology to transparent conduction oxides (TCOs), by better understanding of a process control of industrially scalable Atmospheric Chemical Vapour Deposition, APCVD, technology through laboratory scale experimental R&D supported by modelling and simulation.

The focus of the call is on advanced manufacturing processes for such products components and equipment, which enable new product features (in terms of geometry, weight, robustness, functional integration, re-use-potential); innovative production processes; or the use of innovative materials. The processes should improve productivity and upscaling, decrease waste, and shorten time-to-market and process integration times.

We can offer our expertise in thin film deposition technologies and process control in thin film growth mechanisms as well as fabricating thin film devices and characterization.  Expertise of the Kadir Has team on theoretical and experimental material sciences and technology research and technological development We can for example conduct APCVD depositions of AZO/FTO thin films and structural, electrical and optical characterization studies to improve understanding of deposition process and the effects of deposition parameters on the properties of grown layers.  Modeling and simulation expert of our team will be working closely with the experimental teams to establish differences as well as agreements with the process modeling based on a reaction mechanism that includes the formation of intermediate species.  These findings will help to increase the level of understating in the underlying mechanisms controlling the complex APCVD process.

The call text indicates:

While operating in synergy with initiatives that focus on the design and engineering of strategic products and solutions, research and innovation should focus on the innovative development and application of a selection of the following manufacturing technologies:

 • Additive manufacturing or cladding for manufacturing and/or repair;

•  Advanced Forming and material shaping technologies;

• Surface (pre-)processing technologies, nano- or micromanufacturing; and

• High precision machining and assembly. 

Proposals should consider integrating

• Innovative metrology and inspection methods, aiming at first-time right manufacturing;

• Advanced and flexible automation approaches, for instance for complex assembling and handling of hazardous materials);

• Digital twins and data mining for fast ramp-up, scale-up and real-time optimization of production;

• Manufacturing breakthroughs, perfecting the technologies for market needs, including enhancing its efficiency, reliability, and developing standards. 

Research and technological development activities on deposition and characterization of thin/thick films and surface sciences are recent focus areas for wide range of thin films with metal oxide nanoparticles such as Silica (SiO2), Vanadium oxide (VO2), Titanium dioxide (TiO2), Zinc oxide (ZnO), Tin oxide (SnO2), and the polymer composites such as two-dimensional metal chalcogenides (TMDs-Tungsten sulfide, molybdenum sulphide as well as carbon nanotubes, graphene oxide etc. In the modelling and simulation front, Kadir Has has a well-established team on molecular dynamics simulations with chemical and biological systems as well as reactive flow simulations using commercial computational fluid dynamic simulations.

We can contribute to a challenging task of reducing the cost associated with TCO thin films technologies by better understanding the relationships between APCVD process parameters and properties of an emerging alternative TCO of APCVD grown aluminum doped zinc oxide (AZO) to transfer the know-how to future large area AZO deposition for thin film CdTe solar module manufacturing. With the modeling and simulation expert at Kadir Has team, we can increase the level of understating in the underlying mechanisms controlling the complex APCVD process. Improving APCVD process control for deposition efficiency as well as for better quality AZO/FTO thin film would provide industrially scalable technology for alternative TCOs   for several large area applications specifically thin film solar cell manufacturing.