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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Additive Fabrication"”.
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Additive Fabrication and Soft -Lithographic Patterning of Microelectronic Devices
… patterning techniques to microelectronic device fabrication. Chapter 2 describes how microcontact printing of organic self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) can be used to induce selective chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of platinum and palladium metal films on silicon, which are used extensively in …
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Additive Fabrication of Microstructures Using Self-Assembled Organic Thin-Film Templates
A simple multilayered device, a ferroelectric capacitor with platinum/PZT/platinum layers, was fabricated using the patterning methods developed in this thesis. This achievement demonstrates the possibility of developing a photolithography-free method for fabricating micron-scale …
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From bacteria to buildings : additive manufacturing outside the box
Additive manufacturing has been hailed as the next fabrication revolution with visions of customization, decentralization, and rapid production. Yet with over three decades of progress, limitations associated with poor material properties, slow fabrication speeds, expensive cost, and volumetric …
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Contact-printed microelectromechanical systems
… many potential applications. Novel methods for additive fabrication of thin (125±15 nm thick) suspended gold membranes on a variety of rigid and flexible cavity-patterned substrates for MEMS applications are reported. The deflection of these membranes, suspended over cavities in a dielectric …
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4D printing : towards biomimetic additive manufacturing
… through adaptation, "4D printing" addresses additive fabrication of artifacts with one or more additional design dimension, such as material variation over distance or direction and response or adaptation over time. This work presents and evaluates a series of enabling explorations into the …
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Printing the invisible : bridging the gap between data and matter through voxel-based 3D printing
… inherently virtual. Recent advancements in additive manufacturing are making it possible to 'physicalize' three-dimensional data through 3D printing. Still, most 3D printing methods are geared towards single material printing workflows devoid of the ability to physically visualize volumetric …
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Water-based digital design and fabrication : material, product, and architectural explorations in printing chitosan and its composites
… in a novel multi-scale digital design and fabrication platform that is precisely tailored, viable, and a rich companion to develop sustainable explorations across application scales integrating shape and matter control. Specifically, the research introduces design and environmental …
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DESIGN, MANUFACTURING, AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SOFT, CAPACITIVE ACTUATORS AND ARCHITECTED DIELECTRIC ELASTOMERS
… material system is introduced for the additive manufactur- ing of soft, electrohydraulic tentacle actuators. A photo-curable, elastomeric silicone-urethane with strong dielectric properties (εr ≈ 8.8 at 1 kHz) serves as the encapsulating material for ionically-conductive hydrogel and …
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Computational Tools for 3D Printing and Woven Textile Design
Fabrication has become an active topic in Computer Graphics recently. Besides the most common Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) method for 3D printing, various fabrication techniques such as wireframe printing and 3D weaving are emerging with specific advantages. These novel techniques call for new …
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Development of aromatic polyesters for high performance applications and use of interchain transesterification reactions as a solid-state fabrication tool
… transfer molding is demonstrated as a potential fabrication technique for continuous fiber ATSP composites. The potential for ATSP to be the first weldable thermoset material is also explored. Fully cured laminae of ATSP/carbon fiber are fused into a single workpiece via solid-state interchain …