About this Abstract |
Meeting |
2023 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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Symposium
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Printed Electronics and Additive Manufacturing: Functional Materials, Processing Techniques, and Emerging Applications
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Presentation Title |
Closing the Loop on Aerosol Jet Printing: Optical Process Monitoring to Support Reliable Fabrication of Electronics |
Author(s) |
Ethan B. Secor |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Ethan B. Secor |
Abstract Scope |
Aerosol jet printing (AJP) is a compelling technology for direct-write fabrication of electronic devices, offering high resolution, broad materials compatibility, and digital patterning with a high standoff distance. Despite its popularity for laboratory demonstrations and low-level research and prototyping, AJP exhibits variability that challenges translation to production environments. This talk will highlight recent efforts to address this problem, spanning experimental studies to understand underlying sources of process drift, the development of process monitoring tools to detect variability, and closed-loop control strategies to realize reliable fabrication of functional electronic devices. Several case studies will illustrate the use of these tools to streamline materials and process development for functional printed electronics. |
Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
Keywords |
Additive Manufacturing, Electronic Materials, |