Opto-Electronic Advances · 2018 · 189 citations · 0 references
EngineeringManufacturing EngineeringMaterials EngineeringAdditive ManufacturingElectronic MaterialsMicrofabrication3D PrintingDesign For Additive ManufacturingRapid PrototypingEmbedded ElectronicsEmbedded Electronics FabricationEmbedded Electronics PrintingPrintabilityStretchable ElectronicsThree-dimensional Printing
3D printing is transforming electronic product design and manufacturing by enabling complex, multifunctional, embedded, structural, conformal, and stretchable devices, positioning it as the next frontier in additive manufacturing, with extensive research and industrial efforts over the past five years. This review surveys recent advances and significant achievements in 3D printing electronics, while examining its prospects, challenges, and emerging trends. The authors conduct a systematic literature review of recent developments in 3D printing electronics, synthesizing key achievements and analyzing future prospects, challenges, and trends. The review highlights promising solutions for fabricating electronics via 3D printing, outlining practical approaches and potential pathways.
3D printing is disrupting the design and manufacture of electronic products. 3D printing electronics offers great potential to build complex object with multiple functionalities. Particularly, it has shown the unique ability to make embedded electronics, 3D structural electronics, conformal electronics, stretchable electronics, etc. 3D printing electronics has been considered as the next frontier in additive manufacturing and printed electronics. Over the past five years, a large number of studies and efforts regarding 3D printing electronics have been carried out by both academia and industries. In this paper, a comprehensive review of recent advances and significant achievements in 3D printing electronics is provided. Furthermore, the prospects, challenges and trends of 3D printing electronics are discussed. Finally, some promising solutions for producing electronics with 3D printing are presented.