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SINFOTON2-CM research project launched at the UC3M

4/30/19

The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has carried out the scientific presentation of SINFOTON2-CM, an R+D+I consortium which is funded and coordinated by the Community of Madrid. The aim is to develop instrumentation systems and sensors from photonics technology in order for it to be used in different industrial sectors.

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The event, carried out on the UC3M Leganés campus, was attended by the head of the School of Engineering, Daniel Segovia, and by the coordinator of the SINFOTON2-CM project, lecturer Carmen Vázquez, from the UC3M Electronic Technology Department. “This programme aims to solve measurement challenges with photonics technology including intelligent sensors as one of the pillars of the industrial revolution 4.0”, says Carmen Vázquez.

This R+D+I programme includes the development of intelligent fibre optic sensor networks for the measurement of temperature, deformations or vibrations, the development of active high precision sensors using LIDAR technology, photonics systems that help to overcome different sensory disabilities, the development of different biomedical technology and high performance photonic circuits and devices based on materials which will be used in future third generation solar cells. For this, multiple technologies will be used, such as: distributed acoustic sensing, fibre Bragg grating, pyrometry with fibre optics, polymeric microstructured fibres, multinucleated fibres, organic photonic integrated circuits (PIC), silicon PICs, solar cells made of perovskites, nitrides or hybrid materials, sub-wavelength technology, micro-spectrometers, liquid crystals, visible light communication (VLC), remote fibre power (PoF), high frequency lasers and frequency combs.

In this new project, with lines of direct application in the future European research programme Horizon Europe, over 70 researchers from public universities in the Community of Madrid are collaborating, among them the UC3M (who is leading the programme), the Universidad de Alcalá Henares (UAH), the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) or the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC); as well as the Spanish National Research Council (in the Spanish acronym: CSIC), 28 national and international partner research groups and a large number of companies, from start-ups and SMEs to multinationals in various technological fields.

The programme, affiliated with previous networks such as COST TD1001, COST IC1208 and European projects such as RAPTADIAG, INTERREG-SUDOE and BRITESPACE, is taking on a period of four years (2019-2023) and is funded with over a million euros. It is a continuation of the SINFOTON-CM programme (Sensors and Instrumentation in Photonics Technology in the Community of Madrid), in which over 110 researchers from four Madrid universities took part (UAH, UC3M, UPM, URJC), as well as the CSIC and over 25 partner companies and groups.