Electronics

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING INTO ELECTRONICS

Additive manufacturing processes typically used for mechanical parts can be combined with the enhanced technologies for electronics production to enable a highly flexible manufacturing of personalized 3D electronic devices. 3D Printing method paves the way for the electronics manufacturing industry to produce fully functional components, including 3D antennas and full printed sensors from multiple materials such as metals and plastics.we can anticipate that the future kids can make the mother boards sitting at home with the help of 3D printing. To enable a cost-efficient and sustainable manufacturing of customized electronics, one approach is to completely redesign established process chains and to combine additive processes for electronic production with additive manufacturing (AM) technologies. Principally, AM is based on layer by layer building of the parts and embedding functional elements in every single layer. There by conductive circuits tracks for electronic applications can be integrated.

In this way, multi layer circuit careers can be generated. Presently, for electronics, AM is widely being used for the following

• 3D printing embedded PLA batteries using fused deposition modeling and radio frequency circuits.

• 3D print resistors from electrically conductive filament.

• To create stretchable wearable electronics.

• Breakthrough technique 3D prints electronics or cells directly on skin and 3D printed Bluetooth switches.

• For sensitive electronic devices, enclosures are made using 3D printing.