A Review of Multimaterial Additively Manufactured Electronics and 4-D Printing/Origami Shape-Memory Devices: Design, Fabrication, and Implementation

Y Yang, Z Yin, X Zhu, H Al Jamal, X Lv… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emerging additive manufacturing (AM) technologies, specifically additively manufactured
electronics (AME), 4-D printing, and origami, are reshaping the design capabilities and …

Dielectric Elastomer Architectures with Strain‐Tunable Permittivity

MR O'Neill, D Sessions, N Arora… - Advanced Materials …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Flexible hybrid electronic (FHE) materials and devices exploit the interaction of mechanical
and electromagnetic properties to operate in new form factors and loading environments …

Geometric mechanics of hybrid origami assemblies combining developable and non-developable patterns

KT Liu, GH Paulino - Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Origami provides a method to transform a flat surface into complex three-dimensional
geometries, which has applications in deployable structures, meta-materials, robotics and …

Flexible Double‐Layer Adjustable Frequency Selective Surfaces Based on 3D Cross‐Shaped Kirigami Structure

Y Zhu, Y Dong, D Ji, X Meng, Z Xue… - Advanced Materials …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Frequency‐selective surfaces (FSS) with flexible treatment can be employed in various
applications. This paper develops a mechanically constructed flexible double‐layer …

Toward 5G/mm-Wave Shape-Changing Origami-Inspired Phased Arrays for Near-Limitless Arbitrarily Reconfigurable Radiation Patterns: Realization, Actuation, and …

H Al Jamal, C Hu, E Kwao, K Zeng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents the first shape-changing phased array operating at 28 GHz as an
alternative to traditional planar phased arrays. By combining electrical beamsteering with …

Additively manufactured “smart” rf/mm-wave packaging structures: A quantum leap for on-demand customizable integrated 5g and internet of things modules

X He, K Hu, Y Cui, R Bahr, B Tehrani… - IEEE Microwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
5G and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies are rapidly expanding fields, utilizing cutting
edge processes and manufacturing techniques that enable wide connectivity coverage and …

Computer Vision Enabled Calibration of Additively Manufactured Conformal Phased Arrays Utilizing 3-D Depth Sensing Camera

M Joshi, K Hu, CA Lynch, Y Cui… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The development of flexible phased array systems has drawn significant interest due to their
adaptive beam steerability and deployable structures to support various platforms virtually …

Novel additive manufacturing-enabled RF devices for 5G/mmWave, IoT, smart skins, and wireless sensing applications

G Soto-Valle, K Hu, M Holda, Y Cui… - International Journal of …, 2022 - World Scientific
The recent developments in mmWave and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies have
dramatically increased the interest and demand for radio frequency (RF) devices that can be …

Design optimization of origami-tunable frequency selective surfaces

K Fuchi, D Sessions, A Gillman… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent studies demonstrate the benefit of integrating origami in many engineering
applications, where computational methods facilitate the origami design process. An …

Beyond Planar: An Additively Manufactured, Origami-Inspired Shape-Changing, and RFIC-Based Phased Array for Near-Limitless Radiation Pattern Reconfigurability …

H Al Jamal, C Hu, N Wille, K Zeng… - IEEE Microwave and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents an origami-inspired phased array operating at 28 GHz, with on-structure
beamformer RFICs and a flexible feeding network that utilizes a foldable hinge interconnect …