An efficient and low-cost approach to manufacture Opto-Mechatronic Interconnect Devices will be obligatory to handle the strongly increasing amount of data. The presented approach is based on a flexographic printing process. ...

As powder bed based additive manufacturing (AM) is gaining more traction in the research and industry, significant efforts are made to expand the capability of AM in combining different materials. Conventionally, multiple ...

Due to its thermal and chemical resistance, borosilicate glass finds a wide range of applications in optics, chemical laboratories and in glass apparatus engineering. For the manufacturing of complex glass components, the ...

Laser beam welding is used in many areas of industry and research. There are many strategies and approaches to further improve the weld seam properties in laser beam welding. Metallography is often needed to evaluate welded ...

The PBF-LB (laser-based powder bed fusion) process is subject to a large number of variables, including the characteristics of the processed powder. Since a powder with a given specification can be supplied by various ...

Laser transmission welding (LTW) is a known technique to join conventionally produced thermoplastic parts, e.g. injected molded parts. When using LTW for additively manufactured parts (usually prototypes, small series), ...

Novel printing techniques for optical elements produce characteristics in these optical elements which can sometimes not be resolved with classic testing or imaging methods. As highly individualized components often have ...

Locally adapted properties within a machine component offer opportunities to increase the performance of a component by using high strenght materials where they are needed. The economic production of such hybrid components ...

The lateral use of the laser in laser-assisted WAAM processes, resulting in a directional dependence, can influence the bead shape and the bead surface. The influence of the laser position on the weld bead is investigated. ...

Growing demand for individual and especially complex parts with emphasis on biomedical or lightweight applications enhances the importance of laser powder bed fusion. Magnesium alloys offer both biocompatibility and low ...