An overview of laser-based multiple metallic material additive manufacturing: from macro-to micro-scales

C Wei, Z Zhang, D Cheng, Z Sun… - International Journal of …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Additive manufacturing (AM) is an emerging customized three-dimensional (3D) functional
product fabrication technology. It provides a higher degree of design freedom, reduces …

Laser‐induced forward transfer: fundamentals and applications

P Serra, A Piqué - Advanced Materials Technologies, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Laser‐induced forward transfer (LIFT) is a digital printing technique that uses a pulsed laser
beam as the driving force to project material from a donor thin film toward the receiving …

Additive manufacturing of metal structures at the micrometer scale

L Hirt, A Reiser, R Spolenak, T Zambelli - Advanced Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Currently, the focus of additive manufacturing (AM) is shifting from simple prototyping to
actual production. One driving factor of this process is the ability of AM to build geometries …

Laser-induced forward transfer: A high resolution additive manufacturing technology

P Delaporte, AP Alloncle - Optics & Laser Technology, 2016 - Elsevier
Among the additive manufacturing techniques, laser-induced forward transfer addresses the
challenges of printing thin films in solid phase or small volume droplets in liquid phase with …

[PDF][PDF] Toward 3D printing of pure metals by laser‐induced forward transfer

CW Visser, R Pohl, C Sun, GW Römer… - Advanced …, 2015 - drive.google.com
DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201501058 requirements have to be simultaneously fulfilled. First, good
adhesion between stacked drops is required, but the deposited drops generally solidify in a …

Laser transfer, printing, and assembly techniques for flexible electronics

J Bian, L Zhou, X Wan, C Zhu, B Yang… - Advanced Electronic …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
It is challenging to manufacture large‐area, ultrathin, flexible/stretchable electronics on an
industrial scale. Recent ground‐breaking advances in the manufacture of flexible electronics …

Laser 3D micro-manufacturing

A Piqué, RCY Auyeung, H Kim… - Journal of physics D …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Laser-based materials processing techniques are gaining widespread use in micro-
manufacturing applications. The use of laser microfabrication techniques enables the …

Metals by Micro‐Scale Additive Manufacturing: Comparison of Microstructure and Mechanical Properties

A Reiser, L Koch, KA Dunn, T Matsuura… - Advanced functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Many emerging applications in microscale engineering rely on the fabrication of 3D
architectures in inorganic materials. Small‐scale additive manufacturing (AM) aspires to …

Fundamentals and advances in laser-induced transfer

ZU Rehman, F Yang, M Wang, T Zhu - Optics & Laser Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Laser-induced transfer (LIT) is a well-established direct printing approach for fabricating
structures with a feature size of≤ 10 μm and various dimensions. LIT enables the digital …

Laser-induced forward transfer of high-viscosity silver pastes

D Munoz-Martin, CF Brasz, Y Chen, M Morales… - Applied Surface …, 2016 - Elsevier
In this work, a study of the morphology of individual dots of silver paste deposited by laser-
induced forward transfer (LIFT) is performed using a ns-pulsed laser at 532 nm. The LIFT …