Potentials and Challenges in Additive Manufacturing of Nanoparticle-infused Silicone Optics

authored by

Arved Ziebehl, Tobias Biermann, Tobias Grabe, Julian Röttger, Peer-Phillip Ley, Alexander Gordon Wolf, Roland Johann Lachmayer

Abstract

Extrusion-based silicone manufacturing processes enable the fabrication of functionalized optics by controlling the material properties of each printed voxel. In this paper, potentials of functionalization as well as challenges in the manufacturing of highly transparent silicone via Freeform-Reversible-Embedding are presented.

Organisation(s)

Institute of Motion Engineering and Mechanism Design
School for Additive Manufacturing
PhoenixD: Photonics, Optics, and Engineering - Innovation Across Disciplines

External Organisation(s)

GROTESK – Additive Manufacturing of Optical, Thermal and Structural Components

Type

Conference contribution

Publication date

2021

Publication status

Published

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.15488/11522 (Access: Open)