The Design, Fabrication, and Applications of 3D Printed Capacitors (Preprint)
Abstract
Over the past decade, Additive Manufacturing (AM) has advanced as a novel manufacturing technique used to develop rapid prototypes for custom and complex geometries and multilayer devices in many different industries. Recent advances in emerging technologies such as dual-extrusion FDM 3D printing, along with newly introduced conductive polymer filament materials, have created the potential to use low-cost, readily available 3D printing methods to fabricate electronic devices on-the-fly in remote environments. This study explores the use of Protopasta conductive filament and various common thermoplastic filament materials (PLA, PP, PC) and an Ultimaker s5 Pro dual-extrusion FDM printer with high-resolution 0.25 mm diameter print nozzles to fabricate a fully-fused 50mm x 50mm plate capacitor.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 2022
- Accession Number
- AD1162532
Entities
People
- Brandon A Phillips
Organizations
- University of Dayton