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MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY
MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY
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• Our campuses
• Härnösand
• Sundsvall
• Östersund Härnösand
Östersund
Sundsvall
HISTORY
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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
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• 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
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– 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
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FOUR RESEARCH PROFILE AREAS
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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
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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
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• Härnösand
• Sundsvall
• Östersund
• Örnsköldsvik
DPC Research Center: Härnösand
Östersund
Sundsvall
Örnsköldsvik
DIGITAL PRINTING CENTER
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• 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
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• 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
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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
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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
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─ 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
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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
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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)
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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.
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SEM
Line
quality
No colorant
fixation (G)
High level of
colorant fixation
(J)
Next Generation Substrates
for Inkjet Printing
Perception study
on detail
reproduction
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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
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Surfaces for Functional Inkjet
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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
• …
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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
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Local Optical Variations in paper
Aim: to create a model that relates local
variations of optical properties in paper to
paper components
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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
