We are pleased to announce and invite you to one of our weekly online zoom events.
 

Volumetric 3D printing of high performance ceramics

Ceramic materials have numerous industrial applications thanks to their high chemical, mechanical, and thermal resistances. Precisely because of these reasons, producing parts with these materials is technically challenging with conventional subtractive manufacturing methods. Additive manufacturing is a promising alternative to fabricate ceramic parts with complex geometries. For example, pre-ceramic polymer resins are used in commercial light based Stereolithography printers (Lithoz).

We developed a volumetric printing technique that solidifies all layers simultaneously instead of the traditional layer by layer deposition. This opens us new avenues to print complex geometries without support structures. In particular, we applied volumetric printing to the fabrication of ceramic parts. During the talk, we will show the fabrication of complex centime scale Silicon Oxycarbide ceramics with excellent performance in terms of heat and chemical resistance.

Speaker

Prof. Dr. Christophe Moser
Christophe Moser is Associate Professor of Optics and Section Director in the Microengineering department at EPFL. He obtained his PhD at the California Institute of Technology in optical information processing in 2000. He co-founded and was the CEO of Ondax Inc (acquired by Coherent Inc.), Monrovia California for 10 years before joining EPFL in 2010. His current interests are ultra-compact endoscopic optical imaging through multimode fibers, retinal imaging, volumetric additive manufacturing with light. He is also the co-founder of Composyt light lab in the field of head worn displays in 2014 (acquired by Intel Corp), Earlysight in 2019 , Readily3D in 2020 and Modendo Inc in 2021. He is the author and co-author of over 90 peer reviewed publications and over 50 patents.

Moderator

Dr. Christian Bosshard, Managing director Swissphotonics
Dr. Christian Bosshard received his degree in Physics (1986) and his doctorate (1991, Silver medal award) from ETH. From 2001-2021 he was working at CSEM, first as Section Head and then as Vice President and Head Photonics. Since 2013 he is Managing Director of Swissphotonics. Christian is a Fellow of Optica, Board Member of EPIC, and Member of the Board of the University of Basel.

Date
Tuesday, 1 March 2022

Time
12:00 - 12:45

Software
Zoom

Costs
free of charge

Registration only necessary once
This event series requires registration (see link above). We will send you the access information (Zoom-link and ID) by email after the registration.
The Zoom link remains the same every week. If you have already participated once, you do not need to register again for the following meetings.

Deadline for registration
28 February 2022, 12.00 am

Link to Presentation

Contact Speaker
Prof. Dr. Christophe Moser

Contact Swissphotonics
Dr. Christian Bosshard
Managing director Swissphotonics
+41 79 405 18 26

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