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Member Price:  $25

Non-Member Price:  $49

Non-Member Price for Government, Military, and Academia Non-Members:  $35

To receive this price, contact Michelle Fabiano at [email protected] for discount code.  Must have a valid .gov, .mil or .edu email address

Students:  $0 

To receive this price, contact Gity Samadi at [email protected] for discount code.  Must have a valid student ID card.

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This course, originally recorded on August 18, 2020, describes how machine learning and AI-based approaches to research, development, and production brings advantages to cleanroom processes.  AI-based identification of time-varying equipment performance, and the effects of the previous recipe used on the outcome of the current desired methods, are just some of the ways AI can be used to reduce the process variability.

Cornell University has applied AI approaches to optimize lithography and etching processes involved in the development of an RF wake-up NEMS (Nano ElectroMechnical system) switch that needs a well-controlled gap between a moving shuttle and a contact. This presentation highlights that, as well as a decision tree based AI model for predicting lithography outcomes.

The AI work used as the basis for the course has been applied to plasma etching and the combined prediction of lithography and thin-film etching, using CD-SEM imagery for feature extraction and modeling process variables. Additional approaches to train process-modeling CAD tools to result in better process development experience have been developed.

The course provides a useful basis upon which to formulate AI strategies for all thin film manufacturing sites.

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Bob Street PARC
Robert Street
Fellow, Palo Alto Research Center
Chris Ober
Chris Ober
Cornell University
Peter Doerschuk
Peter Doerschuk
Cornell University
Benyamin Davaji
Benyamin Davaji
Cornell University
Barry Bordonaro
Garry Bordonaro
Cornell NanoScale Facility
Jeremy Clark
Jeremy Clark
Cornell NanoScale Facility
FlexTech

This on-demand course, originally recorded on August 18, 2020, describes how machine learning and AI-based approaches to research, development, and production brings advantages to cleanroom processes.  AI-based identification of time-varying equipment performance, and the effects of the previous recipe used on the outcome of the current desired methods, are just some of the ways AI can be used to reduce the process variability.

10:00 am - 12:00 pm Off Add to Calendar 2020-08-18 10:00:00 2020-08-18 12:00:00 Flexible Electronics Master Class#2: AI in Mfg This on-demand course, originally recorded on August 18, 2020, describes how machine learning and AI-based approaches to research, development, and production brings advantages to cleanroom processes.  AI-based identification of time-varying equipment performance, and the effects of the previous recipe used on the outcome of the current desired methods, are just some of the ways AI can be used to reduce the process variability. United States SEMI.org [email protected] America/Vancouver public America/Vancouver
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Registration Includes: 

  • Live access to one webinar (register separately for each in series)
  • Post-webinar access to recording

Member Price:  $25

Non-Member Price:  $49

Non-Member Price for Government, Military, and Academia Non-Members:  $35

To receive this price, contact Michelle Fabiano at [email protected] for discount code.  Must have a valid .gov, .mil or .edu email address

Students:  $0 

To receive this price, contact Gity Samadi at [email protected] for discount code.  Must have a valid student ID card.

United States SEMI Standards PV and PV Materials China Joint TC Chapter Spring Meeting 2020 Business Technical Featured Speakers

This course describes how machine learning and AI-based approaches to research, development, and production brings advantages to cleanroom processes.  AI-based identification of time-varying equipment performance, and the effects of the previous recipe used on the outcome of the current desired methods, are just some of the ways AI can be used to reduce the process variability.

The team from Cornell has applied AI approaches to optimize lithography and etching processes involved in the development of an RF wake-up NEMS (Nano ElectroMechnical system) switch that needs a well-controlled gap between a moving shuttle and a contact. We report on a decision tree based AI model for predicting lithography outcomes.

This work is being applied to plasma etching and the combined prediction of lithography and thin-film etching, using CD-SEM imagery for feature extraction and modeling process variables. Additional approaches to train process-modeling CAD tools to result in better process development experience are developed.

Read more about the full Master Class Series

United States

Bob Street PARC
Robert Street
Fellow, Palo Alto Research Center
Chris Ober
Chris Ober
Cornell University
Peter Doerschuk
Peter Doerschuk
Cornell University
Benyamin Davaji
Benyamin Davaji
Cornell University
Barry Bordonaro
Garry Bordonaro
Cornell NanoScale Facility
Jeremy Clark
Jeremy Clark
Cornell NanoScale Facility
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This course describes how machine learning and AI-based approaches to research, development, and production brings advantages to cleanroom processes.  AI-based identification of time-varying equipment performance, and the effects of the previous recipe used on the outcome of the current desired methods, are just some of the ways AI can be used to reduce the process variability.

Originally recorded August, 2020, this course is now offered On-Demand.

12:00 am - 12:00 am Off Add to Calendar Disabled
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Member Price:  $75

Non-Member Price:  $147

Non-Member Price for Government, Military, and Academia Non-Members:  $99

To receive this price, contact Michelle Fabiano at [email protected] for discount code.  Must have a valid .gov, .mil or .edu email address

Students:  $0 

To receive this price, contact Gity Samadi at [email protected] for discount code.  Must have a valid student ID card.

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#1 Flexible Power Sources (1.5 hours)

As new materials and process emerge to enable the integration of high performance micro-electronics into paper-thin, flexible hybrid electronics (FHE), there is an increasing demand for new power sources that also support the goals of ultra-thin and flexible.

Among the key challenges is the ability to achieve high energy densities as the battery thickness decreases to a point where the packaging becomes an increasing fraction of the total volume. The challenge is further complicated by the demanding duty cycles for many FHE systems that require both high power (periodic, large current bursts) and high energy  (operation across many years in some cases).

At the same time, the new power sources must meet the typical high standards for safety, durability, compatibility with a wide range of storage and operation temperatures, and the needs to support effective integration into the FHE platforms.

The session reviews the challenges and progress for new power supplies that are emerging to meet the needs of the FHE community.

Course provided by Brian Berland, Chief Technology Officer, ITN Energy Systems

#2 AI in Thin-Film Manufacturing (2 hours)

This session describes how machine learning and AI-based approaches to research, development, and production brings advantages to clean room processes.  AI-based identification of time-varying equipment performance, and the effects of the previous recipe used on the outcome of the current desired methods, are just some of the ways AI can be used to reduce the process variability.

The team from Cornell University has applied AI approaches to optimize lithography and etching processes involved in the development of an RF wake-up NEMS (Nano Electro Mechnical system) switch that needs a well-controlled gap between a moving shuttle and a contact. The work is applied to plasma etching and the combined prediction of lithography and thin-film etching, using CD-SEM imagery for feature extraction and modeling process variables. Additional approaches to train process-modeling CAD tools to result in better process development experience are developed and explained in this session.

Course instructors includes Amit Lal, Chris Ober, Peter Doerschuk, Banyamin Davaji from Cornell University, and Garry Bordonaro and Jeremy Clark with the Cornell NanoScale Facility.

#3 Hybrid Integration Techniques for Flexible Electronics (1.5 hours)

The 1-hour class describes techniques practiced at PARC for the fabrication of flexible hybrid electronics.  Topics include printing interconnects, logic circuits and resistors, bonding integrated circuits and integrating sensors of different types.  The techniques are illustrated with various examples of wireless sensor prototypes on flexible substrates, and also development of electronics on textiles.

Specific topics covered in this session include:

  • printing interconnects
  • printing fine lines, pads and pad pitches with < 100um
  • logic circuits and resistors
  • bonding integrated circuits
  • integrating sensors of different types on flexible substrates without significant performance degradation
  • pick and place with micron-level accuracy

Course instruction given by Robert Street, Palo Alto Research Center

#4 Flexible Electronics Reliability Testing and Challenges (1.5 hours)

This online Reliability Engineering Master class is for people with an engineering or science background, who want to learn and use methods and techniques to conduct reliability analysis and improvement. This course is intentionally structured to show you a wide variety of reliability engineering knowledge and important applications.

This session outlines the foundation reliability engineering concepts and methods, and how to apply fundamental failure investigation techniques. You will also learn a range of effective workplace improvement solutions and risk analyses used to implement reliability engineering strategies.

Course Instruction given by Dave Rasmussen and Tom Seputis, Molex.

Flexible Hybrid Master Classes for 2021 are offered on many additional topics!  Visit this page for entire list and links to more detailed information on each one.

United States

Brian Berland
Brian Berland
Chief Technology Officer, ITN Energy Systems
Amit Lal
Amit Lal
Cornell University
Chris Ober
Chris Ober
Cornell University
Peter Doerschuk
Peter Doerschuk
Cornell University
Benyamin Davaji
Benyamin Davaji
Cornell University
Barry Bordonaro
Garry Bordonaro
Cornell NanoScale Facility
Jeremy Clark
Jeremy Clark
Cornell NanoScale Facility
Bob Street PARC
Robert Street
Palo Alto Research Center
Dave Rasmussen, Molex
Dave Rasmussen
Molex
Tom Seputis
tom seputis
molex
- FlexTech

SEMI FlexTech organizes this series of Flexible Electronics Master Classes on topics proving most challenging to the design, manufacture and use of flexible and printed electronics. The series enables product designers, integrators, and others new to the fields to evaluate technologies and components and make the best choices for their product.

The courses were offered to a live audience July-October, 2020, and are now available on-demand.

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Member Price:  $25

Non-Member Price:  $49

Non-Member Price for Government, Military, and Academia Non-Members:  $35

To receive this price, contact Michelle Fabiano at [email protected] for discount code.  Must have a valid .gov, .mil or .edu email address

Students:  $0 

To receive this price, contact Gity Samadi at [email protected] for discount code.  Must have a valid student ID card.

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Master Class Abstract: As new materials and process emerge to enable the integration of high performance micro-electronics into paper-thin, flexible hybrid electronics (FHE), there is an increasing demand for new power sources that also support the goals of ultra-thin and flexible.

Among the key challenges is the ability to achieve high energy densities as the battery thickness decreases to a point where the packaging becomes an increasing fraction of the total volume. The challenge is further complicated by the demanding duty cycles for many FHE systems that require both high power (periodic, large current bursts) and high energy  (operation across many years in some cases).

At the same time, the new power sources must meet the typical high standards for safety, durability, compatibility with a wide range of storage and operation temperatures, and the needs to support effective integration into the FHE platforms.

The webinar will review challenges and progress for new power supplies that are emerging to meet the needs of the FHE community.

United States

Brian Berland
Brian Berland
Chief Technology Officer, ITN Energy Systems
FlexTech

SEMI FlexTech offers a series of Flexible Electronics Master Classes on topics proving most challenging to the use of flexible and printed electronics. The series enables product designers, integrators, and others new to the fields to evaluate technologies and components and make the best choices for their product.

The first course in the series is on Flexible Power Sources: Challenges, Progress and Integration. This course was offered to a live audience on July 29, 2020, and is now available on-demand.

11:00 am - 12:00 pm Off Add to Calendar Disabled America/Vancouver
Event format

Member Price:  $25

Non-Member Price:  $49

Non-Member Price for Government, Military, and Academia Non-Members:  $35

To receive this price, contact Michelle Fabiano at [email protected] for discount code.  Must have a valid .gov, .mil or .edu email address

Students:  $0 

To receive this price, contact Gity Samadi at [email protected] for discount code.  Must have a valid student ID card.

United States Watch Now SEMI & FlexTech Technical Featured Speakers

Master Class Abstract: As new materials and process emerge to enable the integration of high performance micro-electronics into paper-thin, flexible hybrid electronics (FHE), there is an increasing demand for new power sources that also support the goals of ultra-thin and flexible.

Among the key challenges is the ability to achieve high energy densities as the battery thickness decreases to a point where the packaging becomes an increasing fraction of the total volume. The challenge is further complicated by the demanding duty cycles for many FHE systems that require both high power (periodic, large current bursts) and high energy  (operation across many years in some cases).

At the same time, the new power sources must meet the typical high standards for safety, durability, compatibility with a wide range of storage and operation temperatures, and the needs to support effective integration into the FHE platforms.

The webinar reviews challenges and progress for new power supplies that are emerging to meet the needs of the FHE community.

Read more about the full Master Class Series

United States

Brian Berland
Brian Berland
Chief Technology Officer, ITN Energy Systems
- FlexTech

SEMI FlexTech offers a series of Flexible Electronics Master Classes on topics proving most challenging to the use of flexible and printed electronics. The series enables product designers, integrators, and others new to the fields to evaluate technologies and components and make the best choices for their product.

The first course in the series is on Flexible Power Sources: Challenges, Progress and Integration. This course was offered to a live audience on July 29, 2020, and is now available on-demand.

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Registration Includes:

  • Live access to four (4) webinars
  • Post-webinar access to recordings and presentations
     

Member Price: $199

Non-Member Price: $399

Non-Member Price for Government, Military, and Academia: $249 
(Contact Michelle Fabiano at [email protected] for discount code. Must have a valid .gov, .mil or .edu email address)

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Wednesday, August 26, 2020

10:00 am - 10:05 am
Natalie Wisniewski, PhD, Profusa
Natalie Wisniewski, PhD
Founder, Profusa

Moderator

10:05 am - 10:30 am
Michael Kirby, PhD, Colorado State University
Michael Kirby, PhD
Professor, Colorado State University

Some Geometric Tools for the Analysis of Time-series Data to Elucidate the Host Response to Infection

Biography

Recent developments in both biological data acquisition and analysis provide new opportunities for data driven modeling of the health state of an organism. In this talk we explore geometric ideas and manifold learning methods for analyzing such data sets. In one example we examine the evolution of temperature patterns generated by telemetry data collected from healthy and infected Collaborative Cross mice challenged with Salmonella typhimurium. We visualize the interruption in circadian patterns and characterize the severity of infection within three days after exposure. This work was conducted in collaboration with David Threadgill and Helena Andrews-Polymenis of Texas A&M University.

10:30 am - 10:55 am
Kevin Zhao, Harmonize Health
Kevin Zhao
Co-Founder & CTO, Harmonize Health

Predictive & Prescriptive Analytics for Digital Health

Biography

A key to making digital care delivery easier is to augment biometric monitoring with predictive & prescriptive analytics. Optimized algorithms can efficiently tie together fragmented data sources, such as wearables & medical records. More importantly, they lay the foundation for intuitive workflows that guide clinical staff through effective triage & medical interventions.

10:55 am - 11:20 am
Mary Clare McCorry, PhD, ARMI | BioFabUSA
Mary Clare McCorry, PhD
Director of Technology and Process Development, ARMI | BioFabUSA

Bringing Sensors and Automation to Manufacturing of Replacement Tissue and Organs

Biography

The tissue engineered medical product (TEMP) industry has been held back historically by a lack of scalability, challenges with product consistency, and high final product costs. Over the last three decades, cutting edge science in the space has continued to advance while manufacturing tools and equipment specific to the needs of the field has lagged behind in development. To propel TEMP technologies into the commercial market, automation and sensor technologies need to be developed and implemented to make practical the scalable, consistent, cost-effective manufacturing of TEMPs. BioFabUSA is program of the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI), an industry-led, member-driven, non-profit organization funded by the department of defense dedicated manufacturing of engineered tissues and tissue-related technologies. ARMI | BioFabUSA coordinates technology development projects that crosscut manufacturing areas in raw materials, automation, equipment, software, sensors and measurement tools, data management, preservation, processes, quality systems, and other pertinent elements of tissue engineered medical product manufacturing. With the combined effort of the ARMI membership, ARMI drives impactful advanced research and development activities that enable the development of a scalable, modular, automated and closed platform for the fabrication of TEMPs. This platform relies heavily on the integration of sensors and automation necessary to advance manufacturing technology development and demonstration, paving the way for compressed timelines for process design and development, as well as commercial, GMP-compliant manufacturing.

11:20 am - 11:45 am
Andreas Caduff, ETH Zürich
Andreas Caduff
Industry Advisory Board Member, ETH Zürich

Using Digital Biomarkers and Diagnostics Towards More Holistic Health Mapping

Biography

With an ongoing shift from managing disease towards the inclusion of maintaining health the world has seen the rise of increasingly sophisticated body monitoring and analytics. These tools are aiming to empower the individual to better navigate own health. They are also seeking to generate powerful insights towards the detection of subclinical symptoms or processes via existing and novel digital biomarkers. In that context a topic that is receiving increasing interest is the modulation of human physiology around an individual ‘baseline’ in everyday life and the dynamic around that. Today, there is more and more fully contextualised and truly long-term physiological data becoming available that allows deeper insights into the response of the human body to our behaviour, exposed environment or health events per se. This provides real life data in an unprecedented way. Insights emerging from that are fascinating, sometimes surprising and increasingly instructional.

This talk will provide an overview of where we have come from, what we are currently at and what’s unfolding in the convergence of different domains towards such more integrated and holistic health mapping and new opportunities in real word evidence driven clinical trials.

11:45 am - 12:00 pm

Q&A

FlexTech MSIG

SMART MedTech Virtual Workshop #4

Automation, Augmentation, and AI
 

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Registration Includes:

  • Live access to four (4) webinars
  • Post-webinar access to recordings and presentations
     

Member Price: $199

Non-Member Price: $399

Non-Member Price for Government, Military, and Academia: $249 
(Contact Michelle Fabiano at [email protected] for discount code. Must have a valid .gov, .mil or .edu email address)

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Wednesday, August 19, 2020

10:00 am - 10:05 am
Jeremy W. Ward, PhD, United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Jeremy Ward, PhD
Soft Matter Advanced Development Team Lead, Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate

Moderator

10:05 am - 10:30 am
Christopher Scully, PhD, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Christopher Scully, PhD
Research Biomedical Engineer, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Regulatory Science for Evaluating Wearable Patient Monitoring Systems

Biography

Wearable sensors can enable continuous collection of physiologic signals to measure physiologic parameters or identify signatures of disease. The combination of wearable sensors and artificial intelligence to continuously analyze data provides new approaches to patient monitoring at all levels of care. This talk will outline some of the factors that can affect the safety and performance of wearable patient monitoring systems from sensors to data-driven applications and discuss regulatory science approaches we are taking to address the challenges in their evaluation.

10:30 am - 10:55 am
Ashleigh Coker
Program Lead for Cyber-physical Exploitation for Disaster and Emergency Response (CEDER), Air Force Research Laboratory, Sensors Directorate

Cyber Physical Sensing and Medical Internet of Things

Biography

Studying the cyber kinetic effects of medical IoT devices for intelligence purposes and warfighter situational awareness.

10:55 am - 11:20 am
Ted Hammer, Air Force Research Laboratory, Airman Systems Directorate
Ted Harmer
Electronics Engineer, Air Force Research Laboratory, Airman Systems Directorate

Establishing Transmission and Collection Protocols and Architectures to Better Enable Data Collection and Integration

Biography

In recent years, human wearable technologies have grown to include smart watches, fitness trackers, smart shirts, smart shoes, and more. While there seems to be overwhelming agreement that the data available from these devices [are useful], may radically improve healthcare decision making, and could pave the way toward a true, integrated care continuum, there is little acknowledgement of the complexity and cost of collecting, compiling, and presenting those data to allow healthcare providers and researchers to draw meaningful conclusions.

Despite a focus on personalized learning and readiness within the Air Force, the Performance-Enabled Operational Training Environments (PEOTE) work may emerge as an adaptable [system architecture] model for healthcare information technology and informatics systems to overcome these data proliferation challenges.

PEOTE, in development at Air Force Research Laboratory, is an approach to architecting information networks, by leveraging existing operational communications and data infrastructure and applying these pathways to training. The technologies and the methods in development enable the most flexible data collection and analysis capabilities by creating and leveraging standards-based data architectures, infrastructure capabilities, and data structures. When applied to a training scenario, this framework enables the use of biodata, not as human performance indicators, but as mission performance indicators.

This talk covers the networked training environment, how our team is developing performance measures, and some of the use cases we are exploring, including using the Survival Health Awareness Responder Kit (SHARK) data within Air Force Combat Search and Rescue mission training and large-force exercises.

11:20 am - 11:45 am
Oxana Pantchenko, PhD, NextFlex
Oxana Pantchenko, PhD
Program Manager for Medical Devices, NextFlex

State-of-the-Art in Wearable EEG, EOG and EMG Medical Devices

In this presentation, a review of wearable EEG, EOG, and EMG state-of the-art medical devices with clearance for US marketing will be discussed. A team comprising of researchers from NextFlex evaluated 510(k) cleared, de Novo granted, and PMA approved wearable medical devices by searching through various US FDA databases. Additionally, the team also examined adverse events reported through the Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience database that houses medical device reports submitted to the FDA. Wearable EEG, EOG, and EMG medical device profiles will be presented discussed on usability for detecting decrement in human performance due to cognitive stress and/or cognitive fatigue.

11:45 am - 12:00 pm

Q&A

FlexTech MSIG

SMART MedTech Virtual Workshop #3

Human Wearables Enabling Rapid Decision Making in the Integrated Care Continuum
 

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10:00 am - 12:00 pm Off Add to Calendar Disabled America/Los_Angeles
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Registration Includes:

  • Live access to four (4) webinars
  • Post-webinar access to recordings and presentations
     

Member Price: $199

Non-Member Price: $399

Non-Member Price for Government, Military, and Academia: $249 
(Contact Michelle Fabiano at [email protected] for discount code. Must have a valid .gov, .mil or .edu email address)

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Wednesday, August 12, 2020

10:00 am - 10:05 am
Matthew Dalton, Air Force Research Laboratory
Matthew J. Dalton
Research Chemist, Program Manager, Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate

Moderator

10:05 am - 10:30 am
Lt Col Derek Sorensen, Air Force Research Laboratory, United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine
Lt Col Derek Sorensen
Medical Director of Initial In-Flight Care Division, Air Force Research Laboratory, United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine

Challenges and Needs in the En Route Care and Aeromedical Evacuation Mission

Biography

The United States has executed Aeromedical Evacuation (AE) for over 100 years. Originating with the first crude attempts at evacuating patients on biplanes in 1918. AE has evolved directly in line with the medical capabilities and advancements in aircraft. AE now provides the United States Air Force (USAF) with a global reach on various cargo and refueling aircraft. In the late 1980s, specialized Critical Care Air Transport Teams (CCATTs) developed to augment AE crews. CCATTs drastically changed medical care provided in our nation’s battlespaces. They allowed for more agile far forward casualty care and forged the En Route Care (ERC) systems. ERC is the backbone ensuring the survival of our wounded warriors and bringing them home to their families. The challenges abound when functioning in the ERC system to include the environment, the available resources, and personnel limitations. Exploring and targeting these challenge areas will continue to allow ERC to keep in step with our ever‐changing mission requirements and progress the impressive legacy of bringing heroes home.

10:30 am - 10:55 am
Zheng Yan, University of Missouri, Columbia
Zheng Yan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Biomedical, Biological and Chemical Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia

Exploring the Easy and Cost-Effective Fabrication of Multifunctional On-Skin Wearable Biomedical Devices

Biography

As compared to conventional, rigid, bulky physiological monitoring tools, emerging onskin wearable biomedical devices are ultrathin, lightweight, and small footprint and can find wide applications in point of care diagnostics because of their easy deployment outside the hospital settings. At present, on-skin wearables are usually fabricated by patterning conventional inorganic materials, novel organic materials, or emerging nanomaterials on continuous (i.e., non-porous) flexible supporting substrates. Consequently, the state-of-the-art on-skin wearables often suffer from expensive precursor materials, costly fabrication facilities, complex fabrication processes, and limited functionalities and disposability. By using widely accessible pencils and papers as the fabrication tools, we have developed a rich variety of cost-effective and disposable on-skin bioelectronic devices, ranging from biophysical sensors and sweat biochemical sensors to thermal stimulators, humidity energy harvesters, and transdermal drug delivery systems. The enabled devices can find wide applications in point of care diagnostics, particularly in low-resource environments owing to their low-cost resources, handy operation, time-saving fabrication, and abundant potential designs. Besides, by using judiciously engineered porous elastomer as supporting substrates, on-skin wearable devices with high breathability and self-cooling capability can be achieved.

10:55 am - 11:20 am
Lt Col Melinda Eaton, United States DoD Virtual Health Program Management Office
Lt Col Melinda Eaton
Virtual Health Program Manager & Deputy Program Manager for Pharmaceuticals, Devices, and Medical Support Systems, United States DoD Virtual Health Program Management Office

Defense Health Agency Virtual Health Program

Biography

An overview of the DHA virtual health program including driving factors, high level requirements, and pathway forward. The presentation will also provide an update on the DoD virtual health COVID-19 response and the value provided to patient care through virtual health.

11:20 am - 11:45 am
Azar Alizadeh, GE Research
Azar Alizadeh, PhD
Principal Scientist, GE Research

Manufacturing of Disposable Wearable Patient Monitoring Devices

Biography

Wireless wearable devices can continuously assess and communicate the condition of patients and are crucial components of the are crucial components of the move towards digital, mobile health monitoring. We envision that widespread adoption of disposable wireless devices has the potential to radically transform care-giving in clinical settings. Implementation of continuous patient monitoring could make practices such as spot-checking patient vital signs during hospitalization obsolete. Furthermore, earlier patient discharge may become possible through earlier and safer patient mobilization enabled by wireless monitoring. In this talk, we will discuss flexible hybrid electronic manufacturing opportunities and challenges to create low cost, high performance wireless sensor systems for patient monitoring. These single use devices will support 3-Lead ECG, reflective SpO2, respiration rate and core body temperature sensing on a continuous basis for 72 hours.

11:45 am - 12:00 pm

Q&A

FlexTech MSIG

SMART MedTech Virtual Workshop #2

En Route (ERC) and Point of Care (POC) Diagnostics
 

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10:00 am - 12:00 pm Off Add to Calendar Disabled America/Los_Angeles
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Registration Includes:

  • Live access to four (4) webinars
  • Post-webinar access to recordings and presentations
     

Member Price: $199

Non-Member Price: $399

Non-Member Price for Government, Military, and Academia: $249 
(Contact Michelle Fabiano at [email protected] for discount code. Must have a valid .gov, .mil or .edu email address)

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Wednesday, August 5, 2020

10:00 am - 10:05 am
Melissa Grupen-Shemansky_CTO FlexTech, Exec. Dir. SEMI
Melissa Grupen-Shemansky, PhD
Executive Director FlexTech & NBMC; CTO, SEMI-NBMC

Moderator

10:05 am - 10:30 am
Cristina Davis, UC Davis
Cristina Davis, PhD
Professor and Chair, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Associate Director, Clinical and Translational Sciences Center, UC Davis

Opportunities and Challenges in Exhaled Breath Analysis

Biography

There is an entire field of research dedicated to the chemical analysis of exhaled breath, and the enticing promise of non-invasive medical diagnostics and monitoring. Interestingly, we know that sampling plays a key role in the metabolite content in this complex sample, and biomarker detection and identification in breath may rest on appropriate sampling and analysis protocols. There is also some evidence on how breath chemicals change over time and in response to illness, diet, overall health and exposures. There are also studies that show exogenous drugs measured in breath as well. This talk with highlight our own basic research in this area.

10:30 am - 10:55 am
Jennifer Martin & Sean Harshman (Co-Presenters)
Air Force Research Laboratory, Airman Systems Directorate

Air Force Biomarker Discovery, Wearable Devices, and the Future of Human Performance Monitoring

Jennifer's Biography | Sean's Biography

Historically, biomarker discovery efforts have focused on developing sensing strategies for disease diagnosis and prognosis. More recently, the Department of Defense has made a significant investment in wearable sensor and data analytics methods to predict physiologic and cognitive detriment with the goal of improving personnel readiness and augmenting human performance. During this presentation, a broad overview of not only biomarker discovery approaches within Air Force Research Laboratories will be provided, but also future trends and technology gaps limiting fielding of wearable devices, outlining the underpinning for potential external collaborations.

10:55 am - 11:20 am
W. Kenneth Ward, Pacific Diabetes Technologies
W. Kenneth Ward, MD
Founder & Board Chair, Pacific Diabetes Technologies

Measuring Metabolic Parameters in the Subcutaneous Interstitium

Biography

There are several compounds that interfere with accurate sensing of metabolic analytes in the subcutaneous space, including drugs and endogenous compounds. In addition, when a glucose sensor is exposed to a delivered insulin formulation, there are additional interference issues. Methods of overcoming these threats to accurate sensing will be discussed.

11:20 am - 11:45 am
Eric Van Gieson, PhD, DARPA
Eric Van Gieson, PhD
Program Manager, DARPA

DARPA’s ECHO Program: Disease Diagnosis Through Host-Response Pathway Understanding

11:45 am - 12:00 pm

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SMART MedTech Virtual Workshop #1

From Bio-Markers to Bio-Chemical Sensors
& Physiological Relevancy

 

WORKSHOP SERIES OVERVIEW

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Registration Includes:

  • Access to recordings and presentations

Member Price: $149

Non-Member Price: $299

Non-Member Price for Government, Military, and Academia: $179 
Contact Michelle Fabiano at [email protected] for discount code. Must have a valid .gov, .mil or .edu email address

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SMART MedTech Virtual Workshop Series: Biomarker Sensing and Diagnostics for Telemedicine

Backgound:  Since August 2015, NBMC has been conducting forums for understanding, education, and promotion of non-invasive human performance monitoring technology and manufacturing. Previous Workshops (formerly called Blood Sweat and Tears) brought together industry and university innovators to explore current products research innovations, and technical challenges with a focus on the needs of medical professionals and their patients, Army and Air Force personnel and high-performance athletes.​

Program Overview:  This workshop explored advancements in the state of digital health innovations critical to the success of human performance monitoring with an emphasis on advanced electronics.  Innovations in devices, software and chemistries, will enable new products in digital health, personalized medicine, new human-performance monitoring and augmentation capabilities, aeromedical-monitoring and diagnostics for en route care.

The ideal future state is real time monitoring of biochemical and physiological markers that can guide optimization of human performance and health.  Although some claim to do that now - professionals need more and better accuracy, and more reliable and intelligent diagnostics before implementing and trusting new devices. 

Innovations in the public sector are springboards for new products in digital health and personalized medicine. Since 2013, seventeen separate programs with more than two dozen organizational participants developed materials, electronics, microfluidics, manufacturing processes and algorithms to create low cost, wearable sensors. Most of these integrated sensing systems communicate wirelessly and incorporate high performance silicon devices that are designed to move with the individual. ​

Workshop Topics include:  ​

  • Telemedicine, Telemonitoring, Telementoring (TM3)​
  • Biological molecular identification and sensor development​
  • AI applied to human health and performance​
  • Human Wearables devices​
  • From Biomarkers to Biochemical Sensors, Important Factors to Consider for Physiological Relevancy​
  • En Route CARE (ERC) Aeromedical Evacuation (AE) system & Point of Care (POC) diagnostics​

​The SMART MedTech Virtual Workshop Series links markets with manufacturing for medical relevancy – addressing both ends of the ecosystem. The forum brought together the players across the growing range of industries that are entering or advancing human monitoring applications, to:​

  • Share competitive ideas that may be applied to product development​.
  • Assess roadblocks in bringing human monitoring products to market.
  • Form partnerships that have become key in overcoming obstacles to successful manufacturing and product development.​

Join NBMC experts who are at the cutting edge of product design and manufacturing techniques. Indeed, the success of previous workshops was based on the unique membership of NBMC, where product and manufacturing-oriented engineers from industry, universities, and government labs form teams and pool resources (financial as well as technical) to accelerate human monitoring product development into manufacturing prototypes.​

United States

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

From Bio-markers to Bio Chemical Sensors & Physiological Relevancy

Wednesday, August 12, 2020

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

En Route Care (ERC) and Point of Care (POC) Diagnostics

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Human Wearables Enabling Rapid Decision Making in the Integrated Care Continuum

Wednesday, August 26, 2020

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Automation, Augmentation, and AI

- FlexTech MSIG

Every Wednesday in August 2020, the foremost experts in the field of nano-bio electronics, digital health, telemedicine, wearable human performance monitoring technologies, and applications - gathered to explore the various aspects of the state of the art developments in the field.  For access to these presentations, please email [email protected].

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