• Workpackage 1 : Project Management
• Workpackage 2 : Requirements and specifications
• Workpackage 3 : Toolbox foil
• Workpackage 4 : Toolbox stretch
• Workpackage 5 : Toolbox fabric
• Workpackage 6 : Integration
• Workpackage 7 : Testing
• Workpackage 8 : Demonstration
• Workpackage 9 : Knowledge Management

The objectives of the WP Project Management are:

• Coordination and daily management of the project and the consortium
• Overall coordination of the Work Packages
• Management of communication between all stakeholders

Regular progress information will be collected. Further this WP will act as the primary contact to the EC with respect to legal, financial and administrative issues.

This work package identifies requirements and specifications for WPs3-6 from an end user perspective. The demonstrators smart bandage and interior lighting will be the starting points. General requirements will be identified for the substrates and the interfaces and more specific requirements for the functionality of the building blocks, such as required light intensity, wavelength, homogeneity, sensor functionality, robustness, cleanability, comfort and skin compatibility.

This work package will develop a toolbox for conformable opto-electronic substrates based on foil materials i.e. PEN, PET, PI. WP3 will improve and adjust Ccomponents and building blocks on foil like OLEDs and organic photodiodes (OPDs), diffuser foils as well as carrier materials will be improved and adjusted towith a specified flexibility, permeability and biocompatibility.
These building blocks will be adjusted for the integration in systems composed of combinations and building blocks and carrier materials, either flexible, stretchable or textiles.
Organic devices such as OLED and OPD can be designed and manufactured onto foil and have a large form freedom. Benchmarking will take place with inorganic components, such as LEDs and VCSELs (vertical cavity surface emitting lasers) from technological and application point of view.
Exploration of the combination of organic and inorganic components is new and expected to realise big steps forward.is expected to yield additional benefits and improved functionalities.
Technologies applicable for foil based building blocks will be assessed to and optimised for the suitability for integration with the main carrier platforms proposed in PLACE-it. This will result in application of the building blocks for both the biomedical and automotive demonstrators.

This work package aims to develop a toolbox for conformable opto-electronic stretchable substrates. It will develop building blocks for future combining in the conformable opto-electronic systems smart bandage and automotive interior lighting. This will happen by building on and further developing technologies from the FP6 IST project STELLA. Objectives of the work package are the development of

• Stretchable substrates and systems for the assembly and embedding of LED matrices (conventional and OLED) and sensors (light, humidity, temperature).
• Functionality of the system by investigation of optical properties of stretchable matrix materials, predominately silicone and polyurethane and structuring technologies of the stretchable matrix in order to allow for required light emission characteristics from the LED matrices.
• Interface structures in order to combine any given module realized in stretchable technology with the foil and the fabric electronic subsystems.
• Concepts for industrialisation.

This work package aims to develop a toolbox for conformable opto-electronic fabric substrates. It will develop building blocks for eventual combining in the conformable opto-electronic systems smart bandage and automotive interior lighting, by adjusting and building on existing technologies. In particular, this work package aims to develop:

• Conformable and skin-compatible fabric substrate material incorporating highly conductive yarns
• Functional building blocks for circuitry, light emission and sensing
• Termination useable for fabric electrical circuits
• Protective coatings to prevent deterioration and provide cleanability

In this work package the overall project objectives and specifications from WP2 will be translated into detailed material specifications, layer build-ups, process flows and design guidelines. From technology discussions in this WP, important boundary conditions will be fed back to the technology development WPs, e.g. electronic and opto-electronic components to be used (dimensions, thickness, I/O pad pitches…), types of materials to be investigated (determined by process temperature, dimensional stability, optical properties…), interconnect materials to be used, types of interfaces to be compliant with. Technology developments will be done with a focus on the application demonstrators smart bandage and automotive interior lighting. The specifications and technology requirements for these two application demonstrators will be generic enough to cover a range of future applications in the industrial and biomedical areas. Specific objectives are:

• Define process flows for an integrated technology platform, comprising foil based, stretchable and fabric based technologies
• Develop layer interfaces and substrate interfaces
• Perform mechanical and optical simulations to support technology developments
• Design and manufacture test vehicles showing the technological possibilities of the platform and the potential for applications, as lighting and smart bandage
• Generate a design rule handbook for the technology platform

It is the aim of this work package to evaluate the test vehicles and (to a lesser extent) the building blocks with respect to:

• Reliability, including conformability
• Comfort
• Skin compatibility

• general optical tests
• functionality tests for phototherapy bandage, renal function monitoring bandage and automotive interior lighting

Design, assembly and validation of final demonstrators.
The main task of WP8 is to construct the final demonstrators according to the specifications of WP2. The design is based on the toolbox of WP3-5, the integration technologies of WP6 and the building blocks successfully tested within WP7. The input from endusers will be certified either by the General Assembly or via the user advisory board.

The objectives of this work package are:

• To obtain maximum impact of the project results in the scientific community and in the clinical sites.
• To disseminate via publications and conferences the technologies and clinical results to researchers and industry
• To enhance the specific scientific skills, particularly of the younger scientists employed in the programme and outside PLACE-it To exploit the project results for the benefit of the industrial partners and the European community
• To contribute to standardisation issues of conformable systems and interconnects
• To protect IPR interests of the partners