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SUMMARY:"Exploring the Potential of 3D Printing Technologies for Antenna Design and Fabrication - Challenges and Opportunities",  Prof. Bing Zhang - Sichuan University, China
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The 3D printing technology, as a representative of additive manufacturing technology, has shown considerable application prospects and enormous development potential in various fields. Compared with traditional subtractive manufacturing, 3D printing as an additive manufacturing technology has unique advantages, such as a short turn-around cycle, less material waste, and ease of fabricating complex structures. The advantage of 3D printing gives antenna scientists and designers extra freedom to design and fabricate something that has never been seen before. The wide selection of materials in 3D printing makes it easy to manipulate electromagnetic (EM) waves in a 3D-printed antenna by the combination of different material characteristics. However, current research on 3D-printed antennas focuses on using "new" fabrication technology to implement "old" designs. The capability of 3D printing technology to fabricate complex structures has not been well explored. Moreover, the undesirable surface roughness and dimensional tolerance of 3D-printed devices hinder their widespread applications. This talk focuses on the application of 3D printing technology in antennas and microwave devices fabrication, tracing the birth and evolution of 3D printing technology, classifying 3D printing technologies according to different materials and processes, reviewing representative 3D printed antennas and microwave devices, and envisaging the application of 3D printing technology in the field of EM engineering.=0D=0A=
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Bing Zhang (M'12-SM'15) was born in Taiyuan, China. He received the B.E. degree from the Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin, China, in 2004, the M.E. degree from Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China, in 2008, and the Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2012, all in electrical and electronic engineering. He was a Visiting Scholar with the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France, in May 2012, and a Visiting Scientist with Telecom Bretagne, Brest, France, in November 2014 and April 2015. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Microwave Electronics Laboratory, Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, from November 2012 to October 2015. He was a Research Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore from 2016 to 2017. He joined the College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Sichuan University, as a full Professor in 2017. He is the recipient of the Best Student Paper Award in APCAP 2012, the Young Scientist Award of URSI Commission B in 2013 and the APMC2019 Prize in Antennas. His research interests include design and codesign of RF passive and active devices, mmWave and THz antennas, packaging of mmWave and THz devices, Antenna-in-Package, 3-D printing technologies for millimeter-wave and THz applica-tions, and wireless power transfer.
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