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Brice Le Borgne1, Emmanuel Jacques2, Maxime Harnois3
1Advanced Technology Institute, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK. b.h.leborgne@surrey.ac.uk.
Abstract:
The integration of electronics into the process flow of the additive manufacturing of 3D objects is demonstrated using water soluble films as a temporary flexible substrate. Three process variants are detailed to evaluate their capabilities to meet the additive manufacturing requirements. One of them, called water transfer printing, shows the best ability to fabricate electronics onto 3D additively manufactured objects. Moreover, a curved capacitive touchpad hidden by color films is successfully transferred onto the 3D objects, showing a potential application of this technology to fabricate fully additively manufactured discrete or even hidden electronic devices.
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