By Scott Miller, NextFlex Director of Strategic Programs Massachusetts has been a strong partner of NextFlex and an investor in flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) since the establishment of the Institute. The Commonwealth has again demonstrated its support with the announcement of a $500,000 Massachusetts Manufacturing Innovation Initiative (M2I2) grant for …
By Paul Semenza, Director of Commercialization, NextFlex Membership is at the core of NextFlex’s mission to build an ecosystem for flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) manufacturing in the United States. By bringing together companies from across the supply chain to work with academic institutions, non-profit organizations, and government, NextFlex is creating …
Republished from EE Times. By Wilfried Bair, Senior Engineering Manager – Device Integration & Packaging, NextFlex Wearables require flexible hybrid electronics with die thinned to less than 30mum, and handling these ultrathin die is turning out to be a critical part of the manufacturing process. Ultrathin die (<50 µm) have been …
NextFlex will once again open the doors to its manufacturing facility in San Jose for its second annual Innovation Day on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. Since its inception in 2015 – when the U.S. Dept. of Defense announced a $75-million award to advance the country’s manufacturing ecosystem and workforce for …
Republished post from LinkedIn. By Brynt Parmeter, NextFlex I’ll let you in on a secret. Believe it or not, manufacturing is where people come together to actually make things – really cool things. And, what is even more crazy, is that teenagers love it! I know this sounds too weird to …
The I-Corps @ DoD pilot program is an intensive 7 week entrepreneurial education program, modeled after other lean startup programs, which trains researchers in how to become entrepreneurs. The program seeks to fund as many as 12 teams of three people each to explore the commercial and defense potential of …