Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) is an additive manufacturing process that uses a laser to fuse powdered starting materials into solid 3D structures. Despite the potential for fabrication of complex, high-resolution structures with SLS using diverse starting materials (including biomaterials), prohibitive costs of commercial SLS systems have hindered the wide adoption of this technology in the s...

In this work, the machine dynamic response in Selective Laser Sintering is investigated with the purpose of determining the causes of scanning errors. Machine subcomponents are rst investigated to determine their potential eeects on the laser beam positional accuracy. The dynamics of the laser beam delivery system are identiied as the major contributor to deviations in the laser beam position. ...

In this Research Article, we demonstrate pulsed laser processing of a silver nanowire network transparent conductor on top of an otherwise complete solar cell. The macroscopic pulsed laser irradiation serves to sinter nanowire-nanowire junctions on the nanoscale, leading to a much more conductive electrode. We fabricate hybrid silicon/organic heterojunction photovoltaic devices, which have ITO-...

The deposition of nano-size copper particles was carried out by means of ink-jet printing on the ceramic substrate (silicon and faience) using Nd +3 :YAG laser. Glycerin and aqueous based nano copper inks were prepared and were inkjetted in this study. The sintered copper film had a grainy structure with neck-like junctions. The microstructure and soldering properties were examined using XRD, S...

Ceramic YAG/Yb:YAG/YAG planar waveguide lasers were realized on continuous-wave and mode-locked operations. The straight waveguide, fabricated by non-aqueous tape casting and solid state reactive sintering, enabled highly efficient diode-pumped waveguide continuous-wave laser with the slope efficiency of 66% and average output power of more than 3 W. The influence of the waveguide structure on ...

The physical model describing heat transfer and melting taking place during and after the interaction of a laser beam with a semi-infinite metal surface is based on the classical Stefan problem with appropriately chosen boundary conditions to reflect direct selective laser sintering of metals. A level set method for solving this problem is presented in this paper. From the results of these comp...

Silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) of ~ 6 nm in size were synthesized by the reduction silver 2-[2-(2-methoxyethoxy)ethoxy]acetate benzyl alcohol acting both as solvent and reducer. The as-synthesized Ag NPs dispersed a mixture nontoxic solvents with different boiling temperatures (butanol propylene glycol ethers) to prepare ink. ink was spin-coated on polyimide films processed thermal laser sinteri...

Carbon nanotube-copper (CNT/Cu) composites have been successfully synthesized by means of a novel particles-compositing process followed by spark plasma sintering (SPS) technique. The thermal conductivity of the composites was measured by a laser flash technique and theoretical analyzed using an effective medium approach. The experimental results showed that the thermal conductivity unusually d...