Recent Advances in 3D Printing Technologies and Applications for Electronics

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microelectronics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2025 | Viewed by 1516

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Department of Electrical Apparatus, Technical University of Sofia, 1156 Sofia, Bulgaria
Interests: computational electromagnetics; electromagnetic actuators and sensors; computer modeling; numerical methods; bio-electromagnetics; electromagnetic materials; 3D printing and additive technologies; design optimization and inverse problems
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Interests: smart sensors; energy harvesters; microfluidics; MEMS; printed electronics; nanoelectronics; wearable devices; organ on chip; point-of-care devices
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Dear Colleagues,

3D printing for innovative electromagnetic materials and devices are just starting to emerge. A huge variety of electronic devices are waiting to be manufactured or assembled in a new digital additive way, revealing bright opportunities for improved designs with increased energy and material usage efficiencies. 3D printed and assembled electronic devices could be sharply tailored for the specific broad needs of one sustainable world. This Special Issue ambitiously aims to be an informative resource covering these opportunities, gathering novel research works and visions revealing the potential implemented in the new technologies. The Guest Editors would like to focus the attention on 3D-printing technologies in Electronics, with new materials with enhanced electric and magnetic properties, new designs of electronic equipment, sensors, flexible electronics, antennas, waveguides, photonics and optoelectronics, adaptive design methods for electronics, biomedical applications, micro-printing, etc.

Potential topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • 3D printing technologies and applications
  • 3D printed electric and electronic circuits and schemes
  • flexible electronics
  • 3D printable materials
  • 3D printed sensors and actuators
  • 3D printed antennas and waveguides
  • 3D printing in photonics and optoelectronics
  • adaptive designs and optimization techniques for 3D printing
  • 3D printed biomedical applications
  • micro 3D printing.

Prof. Dr. Valentin Mateev
Prof. Dr. Sanket Goel
Prof. Dr. Iliana Marinova
Prof. Dr. Subhas Mukhopadhyay
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • 3D printing
  • additive technologies
  • electromagnetic materials
  • flexible electronics

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Modeling the Energy and Heating Efficiency of 3D Printing for Composite Materials with Dispersed Volumetric Particles
by Teodor Grakov, Valentin Mateev and Iliana Marinova
Electronics 2025, 14(4), 688; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics14040688 - 10 Feb 2025
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Additive manufacturing, such as the 3D printing of composite materials for electronics is rapidly evolving, enabling the production of advanced electric and magnetic composites with tailored properties. These materials require special printing conditions and advanced control to maintain the desired material properties during [...] Read more.
Additive manufacturing, such as the 3D printing of composite materials for electronics is rapidly evolving, enabling the production of advanced electric and magnetic composites with tailored properties. These materials require special printing conditions and advanced control to maintain the desired material properties during the 3D printing process and in the final product design. Hence, determining the heating and energy consumption and estimating the efficiency of 3D printing is essential. This work modeled the fused filament fabrication 3D printing of composite materials with a polymer carrier matrix. A 3D time-dependent thermal model of a 3D printer extruder was developed and implemented using the finite element method to study and improve the efficiency of 3D printing. As the filler content influences the operational parameters and process energy consumption of the 3D printing process, the transient heating process parameters were estimated using different composite modifier contents. Two types of modifiers were considered: Fe2O3 and CaO, both mixed in a PLA carrier material. The volumetric fill ratio of the two modifiers did not exceed 45%, as the mixing dependency of the material properties is linear in this range. The power fluxes and power efficiency were estimated. The results provide new possibilities for better control methodologies and advanced additive manufacturing for new materials in electronics. Operational control can accelerate the 3D printing process, speeding up the heating of 3D-printed composite materials and reducing the printing time and total energy consumption. Furthermore, this research provides directions for new advanced 3D printing extruder designs with better power and energy heating efficiency. Full article
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