[IEE EC3 News] Lecture reminder - Additive manufacturing - 22 May 2014

[Bill Pechey]

Dear Colleague,

You are being sent this reminder message because either you gave your
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I have appended the details of our next lecture and hope to see you
there.

You can download a poster from the following IET web page to display
in your place of work: http://mycommunity.theiet.org/files/4714

Note that this talk is not in the usual Palmer Building but in the
Gordon Lecture Theatre in the Systems Engineering Building.

Best wishes,

Bill Pechey
IET Thames Valley Specialised Section

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Making Additive Manufacturing Functional

Matthias Feinaeugle, University of Southampton

Thursday 22 May 2014 19.00 for 19.30

The laser-assisted fabrication of electronic and photonic devices

Additive manufacturing is well-known to produce almost arbitrary
shapes from simplest tabletop printing systems. However, these
structures cannot provide electrical (or device) ‘functionality’ due
to a limited set of printable materials, despite the fact that
printing techniques are routinely used in industrial processes, e.g.
in the manufacturing of solar cells. Tonight’s talk will present
laser-assisted direct-write techniques, in particular laser-induced
forward transfer and ablation, used for the fabrication of electronic,
photonic or biomedical devices. Compared to conventional printing,
such laser-assisted techniques can avoid the use of clean room
processes, apply liquid or solid materials, and combine organic,
biological and inorganic materials at high precision. Possible
industrial applications and markets for such technology are also
discussed, and finally I will speculate on the future vision of a home
based table-top ‘functional 3D printer’.

This event is free of charge and open to all, with refreshments at 19.00.
Contact: Dr Richard Mitchell rjmitchell at theiet.org

http://www.theiet.org/ec3

Systems Engineering, University of Reading RG6 6UR
For directions please visit http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/find/about-findindex.aspx