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Additive Manufacturing and Other Techniques for Fabrication of Foams and Electrically Conductive Polymer Composites
DownloadSpring 2023
In this thesis, two aspects of advanced uses for additive manufacturing and microfabrication are investigated: stretchable electronics and polymer foams. These topics were initially part of an extended project effort to develop new capabilities in deformable, high-frequency antennas and the...
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Development of a Multi-material Extruder System to 3D Print Hard Thermoplastics, Soft Elastomers and Liquid Metals
DownloadSpring 2019
Functional sensors often consist of rigid parts, soft rubber-like parts, and mechanically tunable electronic components. As part of a larger project to 3D print tunable antennas, it was tasked to develop a printer that could directly produce 3D stretchable electronics with soft and hard...
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Liquid Metal Based Test Structures and Reconfigurable Microfluidic Microwave Devices and Antennas
DownloadFall 2017
Electrically reconfiguring communicational devices suffer from a number of drawbacks: incorporating electrical elements such as varactors in unit cell level to manipulate the inductance/capacitance of the circuits and maintaining RF/DC interference isolation in power supply is very challenging....