additive manufacturing

Flexible, Wearable, Disposable Wireless Communication and Sensing Systems Through Additive Manufacturing - 2019

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B9 L2 H1

With the advent of wearable sensors and internet of things (IoT), there is a new focus on electronics which can be bent so that they can be worn or mounted on non-planar objects. Due to large volume (billions of devices), there is a requirement that the cost is extremely low, to the extent that they become disposable. The flexible and low-cost aspects can be addressed through additive manufacturing technologies such as inkjet, screen and 3D printing. This talk introduces additive manufacturing as an emerging technique to realize low cost, flexible and wearable wireless communication and sensing systems.

Flexible, Wearable, Disposable Wireless Communication and Sensing Systems Through Additive Manufacturing - 2020

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KAUST

With the advent of wearable sensors and internet of things (IoT), there is a new focus on electronics which can be bent so that they can be worn or mounted on non-planar objects. Due to large volume (billions of devices), there is a requirement that the cost is extremely low, to the extent that they become disposable. The flexible and low-cost aspects can be addressed through additive manufacturing technologies such as inkjet, screen and 3D printing. This talk introduces additive manufacturing as an emerging technique to realize low cost, flexible and wearable wireless communication and sensing systems. The ability to print electronics on unconventional mediums such as plastics, papers, and textiles has opened up a plethora of new applications. In this talk, various innovative antenna and sensor designs will be shown which have been realized through additive manufacturing. A multilayer process will be presented where dielectrics are also printed in addition to the metallic parts, thus demonstrating fully printed components. Many new functional inks and their use in tunable and reconfigurable components will be shown. In the end, many system level examples of wireless sensing applications will be shown. The promising results of these designs indicate that the day when electronics can be printed like newspapers and magazines through roll-to-roll and reel-to-reel printing is not far away.

Yiming Yang

Yiming Yang is a Ph.D. candidate at the KAUST Integrated Microwaves Packaging Antennas and Circuits Technology Research Group under the supervision of Professor Atif Shamim. His research interests include frequency selective surfaces, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, and meta-surfaces in combination with additive manufacturing, time modulation, and other fabrication and reconfiguration methods.

Brian Parrott

Education 2021.08 - Present Ph.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, KSA 2017.06 - 2019.06 MBA, HKUST, Hong Kong-China ​2010.08 - 2011.12 MS in Chemical and Biological Engineering, KAUST, KSA 2006.09 - 2010.06 BS in Biology, University of Washington, USA Professional Profile 2012.05 - Present Research Scientist, Research and Development Center, Saudi Aramco, KSA Honors and Awards 2014.01 CEO Excellence Award 2013.01 International Glory Medal, International Federation of Inventors' Associations Selected Publications B. Parrott, P. Carrasco

Atif Shamim

Professor Shamim is an accomplished electrical engineer specializing in wireless communication and sensing components and systems. His work aims to improve the performance of wireless communication and sensing systems through low-cost additive manufacturing techniques.