cp 7.0 gjÖvik 121023 mid sweden university · facts 2011-10-11 facts 4 •16 000 students •600...

CP 7.0 GJÖVIK 121023

MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY

MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY

2011-10-11 2 Facts

• Our campuses

• Härnösand

• Sundsvall

• Östersund Härnösand

Östersund

Sundsvall

HISTORY

2011-10-11 3 Facts

1842 Teacher Training and Nautical Education in Härnösand (..the Athens of Norrland)

1971 School of Social Work and Public Administration in Östersund

1977 University College in Sundsvall/Härnösand and University College in Östersund

1993 Mid Sweden University College

1995 Colleges of Health Sciences transferred to Mid Sweden University College

2001 Faculty of Natural Sciences

2005 Mid Sweden University

FACTS

2011-10-11 4 Facts

• 16 000 Students

• 600 Independent courses

• 50 Educational programs

• 30 Master programs

• 235 Graduate students

• 1 000 Employees

• 57% teachers with a

postgraduate education

• 909 Million SEK turnover

≈ US$ 135 million

• Very successful in Distance

Learning

DEVELOPMENT PLAN, 2009

2011-10-11 5 Facts

– Our core values for development:

PROXIMITY, BENEFITS, CURIOSITY

– Education close to working life

– Research as joint action and venture out of the vision: FORESTS AND MOUNTAINS AS RESOURCES FOR TRADE, INDUSTRY AND

LIFE QUALITY

− Governmental demands on our research:

DEEPEN DISTINCTIVENESS AND COOPERATION, REGIONALLY,

NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY

ORGANIZATION CHART

2011-10-11 6 Facts

FOUR RESEARCH PROFILE AREAS

2011-10-11 7 Facts

Vision:

Forests and mountains as resources for trade, industry, and life quality

comprises

• Forest as a resource (research center FSCN)

• Industrial information technology and Digital services (research center STC)

• Health, Sports science and Sports technology (research center NVC)

• Tourism and Adventure (research center ETOUR)

OTHER CENTRAL

RESEARCH AREAS

2011-10-11 8 Facts

Central areas of research

• Entrepreneurship and Business

development

• Banks, Insurances, Pension

• Media and Communication

• Learning, Education and

Cultural heritage

• Crisis and risk

Subject-specific research

• Among other things

research related to big

and important first-cycle

areas

MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY

2011-10-11 9 Facts

• Härnösand

• Sundsvall

• Östersund

• Örnsköldsvik

DPC Research Center: Härnösand

Östersund

Sundsvall

Örnsköldsvik

DIGITAL PRINTING CENTER

2011-10-11 10 Facts

• Faculty of Science, Technology & Media

• Department of Applied Science & Design

• Research in Graphic Arts Technology

• Started in 2000

• 13 employees

• Head of DPC: Mattias Andersson

RESEARCH

2011-10-11 11 Facts

• Started with focus on digital printing on paper media

• Research is carried out in close cooperation with

the industry

• Two research areas:

• Experimental Inkjet – printing of color and

functionalities

• Characterization and Appearance

INK-MEDIA INTERACTION AND

DIGITAL FABRICATION

2011-10-11 12 Facts

Aim:

understanding of ink-media interaction

How:

- studies of dynamics and mechanisms at the

ink-media interface

- print quality measurements

- modelling

2 senior researchers

2 PhD students

Cooperation with Electronics Division (STC)

STC@MIUN

2011-10-11 13 Facts

Sensor Technology

Measurement technology

Embedded systems

Service Platforms

~80 people, 70 researchers

½ senior ½ phd students

5 spin-offs

3 start-ups

CHARACTERIZATION & APPEARANCE

2011-10-11 14 Facts

─ Spectral goniophotometry

─ Local variations in paper and prints

─ Spectral Imaging

─ Spectral Printing

─ Advanced models for light scattering

in paper and print

─ 3 senior researchers

─ 5 PhD students

─ Close cooperation with FSCN

FSCN@MIUN

2011-10-11 15 Facts

Started 1999

> 60 researchers

> 6 M€ / year

5 – 10 Doctoral / Licenciate theses / year

Printing paper manufacture - World largest mechanical pulp research program

Water cleaning - Clean water, little waste, extractives valuable, water purification

Packaging Design - Systems effect, composite design, structure improvement

Paper, Design and Information –Communication Technology (sensor)

Live paper – functional products, structural materials, packages, print media

Growth from the forest (biology, green chemistry)

RESEARCH PROJECTS AT DPC

2011-10-11 16 Facts

Project Financial Support Size (Euro) Project

time

NextJet - Next Generation

Substrates for Inkjet Printing

VINNOVA Foundation,

Kempe Foundations

1 280 000 2007-2012

PaperOpt VINNOVA Foundation,

Kempe Foundations

2 890 000 2008-2012

Resource Center for Print

Innovation

EU, Community,

Kempe Foundations,

M S Univ.

2 570 000 2009-2012

Spectral Printing M S Univ. 100 000 2009-2012

Spectral Goniophotometer Knowledge

Foundation

350 000 2010-2012

* Color printing 7.0 – Marie Curie, 2012-

* New Swedish initiative – Large-scale advanced soft surfaces (fiber materials)

2011-10-11 17 Facts

Research Projects @ DPC

Next Generation Substrates

for Inkjet Printing

a

Penetration

Spreading

Adsorption

Wetting and

Penetration and fixation

Inkjet dropletcontaining dye,

binders andsurfactants

Paper substrate,either specially

pigment coated orelse surface treated

Aim: understanding ink-substrate

mechanisms that govern print quality

Co-project with Institute for Surface

Chemistry (YKI), Stockholm, and

participating companies and

organizations.

2011-10-11 18 Facts

SEM

Line

quality

No colorant

fixation (G)

High level of

colorant fixation

(J)

Next Generation Substrates

for Inkjet Printing

Perception study

on detail

reproduction

2011-10-11 19 Facts

Surfaces for Functional Inkjet

Aim: Fundamental understanding

of

• ink-substrate and multiple ink

layer interaction for functional

inks

• sintering processes for metal

nano particle inks

The work further aims at

contributing to improved

performance in printed electronics

applications

Co-operatiion with the Electronics

division (STC) at Mid Sweden

University in Sundsvall.

20 Facts T. Öhlund, et al., Sintering methods for metal nano particle inks

on flexible substrates, Proc. of NIP 25, 614-617 (2009)

Study: sintering methods.

Electrical

sintering

Heat

sintering

After

printing

After

drying

After

sintering

2011-10-11

Surfaces for Functional Inkjet

2011-10-11

Hybrid Printing

Hybrid printing: Printing with two

or more printing technologies.

Hybrid printing gives the

opportunity to combine the high

speed of traditional printing with

variable data printing.

Applications:

• Transactional data printing

(and transpromo)

• VDP on packages

• …

2011-10-11

Spectral Printing

The research adresses the most

significant issues related to spectral

color reproduction.

Examples include:

• Spectral printer modelling

• Spectral gamut mapping

• Ink selection for spectral printing

• Print quality

Original Spectral

reproduction

Tri-chromatic

reproduction

2011-10-11

Local Optical Variations in paper

Aim: to create a model that relates local

variations of optical properties in paper to

paper components

2011-10-11

Spectral Goniophotometer

• Develop a measurement system

based on a spectral goniophotometer

• Develop gonio-spectral imaging

system

• Evaluate currently used models for

light scattering

• Evaluate and explain limitations of

currently used instruments

2011-10-11

mattias.andersson@miun.se