FCRI will be a unique cyber-based platform that integrates essential information and knowledge about FlexE and links scientists and engineers in academic institutions, national laboratories and electronics industries around the globe. Flexible electronics (FlexE) manufactured using roll-to-roll (R2R) processes are widely anticipated to trigger the next industrial revolution that will change the way people live, work and play. The Center for Advanced Microelectronics Manufacturing (CAMM) at the Binghamton University is a designated national facility that brings together governmental, industrial and academic efforts to address critical issues in manufacturing next generation electronics. FCRI is designed to further enhance the utilization of state-of-the-art facilities for broader collaborative R&D activities and accelerate the FlexE revolution.

• Mission: To create a cyber-based research and education platform that serves both local and global FlexE communities, to integrate and disseminate essential information and knowledge about FlexE, and to facilitate collaborations among academia, government agencies and industries in FlexE R&D.

• Vision: To be an international leader in facilitating large scale collaborative R&D for advancing FlexE technologies and to be the definitive source of information and knowledge about flexible electronics.

• Function:To integrate a variety of tools for enabling remote experiments, on-line simulations, real-time multimedia communications, and FlexE information retrieval, submission, mining and sharing, and to provide cyber-mediated laboratories, libraries, classrooms, and recreational spaces with functions beyond those of real world ones. FCRI will include three interconnected components:

• Cyber Laboratories will connect key experimental instruments and simulation engines around the world with inter-operable interfaces.
• Cyber Libraries will be the ultimate Expert Systems for advancing FlexE technologies and the definitive information source and gateway for the FlexE community.
• Cyber Classrooms will serve real classroom functions for lectures, seminars, conferences, and discussions.