Electronics 3D Printing Series
nScrypt’s Ken Church on Why Additive Electronics Is Finally Finding Its Fit
For years, additive manufacturing (AM) has promised to reshape electronics. The idea has always been to print circuits directly where they are needed, add them into parts, and move beyond…
Rice Researchers Use Microwaves to 3D Print Electronics
Rice University researchers have found a way to 3D print using focused microwaves. Published in Science Advances, Professor Yong Lin Kong and his team believe the technology could be used…
The Advantages of Additively Manufactured Electronics
The first advantage of AME that will be discussed is the increased potential of miniaturization. Not only electronic traces but also coils and capacitors can easily be imprinted in the…
Electronics 3D Printing, Part Five: 3D Printing Antennas the Future of Communication?
It is ironic that something designed and made to receive and broadcast information has been so disproportionately talked about in 3D printing as the antenna. There have been millions of…
Electronics 3D Printing Part Three: Inkjet 3D Printing
In our previous articles in this series, we discussed the history leading up to the development of electronics 3D printing, as well as one of the two dominant methods for…
Electronics 3D Printing, Part One: History of Electronics 3D Printing
Perhaps the holiest of holy grails for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry is the fabrication of complete, functional goods within a single print operation. Rather than produce individual parts that…
Electronics 3D Printing, Part Two: Direct Writing
As we already began to discuss in part one of this series, there are already a handful of companies that offer electronics 3D printing platforms and services. Perhaps the most…
