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Additive manufacturing offers efficient production of plastic scintillators with nontrivial geometries using vat polymerization, allowing fabrication of geometries which would be difficult or even impossible to produce using conventional…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-30 Chandler Moore , Michael Febbraro , Juan Manfredi , Allen Wood , Daniel Rutstrom , Thomas Ruland , Brennan Hackett , Paul Hausladen

In the recent years of industrial revolution, 3D printing has shown to grow as an expanding field of new applications. The low cost solutions and short time to market makes it a favorable candidate to be utilized in the dynamic fields of…

A novel beam profiler based on microstructured scintillation resin is presented. The detector consists of a bundle of waveguides, with an active area of 30 x 30 mm$^2$ and a pitch of 400 $\mu$m, obtained by molding a scintillating resin…

3D printing allows rapid fabrication of complex objects from digital designs. One 3D-printing process, direct laser writing, polymerises a light-sensitive material by steering a focused laser beam through the shape of the object to be…

The performance of a scintillating fiber detector prototype for tracking under high rate conditions is investigated. A spatial resolution of about100 micron is aimed for the detector. Further demands are low occupancy and radiation hardness…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 E. C. Aschenauer , J. Baehr , V. Gapienko , B. Hoffmann , A. Kharchilava , H. Luedecke , R. Nahnhauer , R. Shanidze

3D-printing of radiofrequency (RF) cavity resonators could provide a cost-effective solution that enables rapid prototyping and design flexibility compared to traditional fabrication of full-metal cavities. In this work, the feasibility of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 David Sims , Benjamin Sims , Brian Wright , John W. Lewellen , Sergey V. Baryshev

3D printing, also called additive manufacturing, offers a new vision for optical fabrication in term of achievable optical quality and reduction of weight and cost. In this paper we describe two different ways to use this technique in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-03 Melanie Roulet , Carolyn Atkins , Emmanuel Hugot , Sabri Lemared , Simona Lombardo , Marc Ferrari

Additive manufacturing techniques are revolutionizing product development by enabling fast turnaround from design to fabrication. However, the throughput of the rapid prototyping pipeline remains constrained by print optimization, requiring…

Conventional 3D printings are generally time-consuming and printable metal inks are rather limited. From an alternative way, we proposed a liquid phase 3D printing for quickly making metal objects. Through introducing metal alloys whose…

General Physics · Physics 2014-05-02 Lei Wang , Jing Liu

Additive manufacturing, such as 3D printing, offers unparalleled opportunities for rapid prototyping of complex three-dimensional objects, but typically requires simultaneous building of solid supports to minimize deformation and ensure…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Sam Keller , Matthew Stein , Ognjen Ilic

Humanity's interest in manufacturing silica-glass objects extends back over three thousand years. Silica glass is resistant to heating and exposure to many chemicals, and it is transparent in a wide wavelength range. Due to these qualities,…

In this study, a method to construct a full-colour volumetric display is presented using a commercially available inkjet printer. Photoreactive luminescence materials are minutely and automatically printed as the volume elements, and…

In this paper we are exploring the possibilities of 3D printing in the fabrication of mirrors for astronomy. Taking the advantages of 3D printing to solve the existing problems caused by traditional manufacturing, two proof-of-concept…

The 3D printing technology based on digital light processing (DLP) has highlighted its powerful manufacturing capabilities for optical components. However, the printing structure obtained by DLP based down projection printing is easily…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-10 Xiaoying Lu , Hua Liu

3D and 4D printing are cutting-edge technologies for precise and expedited manufacturing of objects ranging from plastic to metal. Recent advances in 3D and 4D printing technologies in dentistry and maxillofacial surgery enable dentists to…

Portable quantum technologies require robust, lightweight apparatus with superior performance. For techniques dependent upon high-vacuum environments, such as atom interferometers and atomic clocks, 3D-printing enables new avenues to tailor…

Three-dimensional (3D) printing has emerged as a powerful tool for material, food, and life science research and development, where the technology democratization necessitates the advancement of open-source platforms. Herein, we developed a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-16 Iek Man Lei , Yaqi Sheng , Chon Lok Lei , Cillian Leow , Yan Yan Shery Huang

The advent of additive manufacturing has opened opportunities to rapidly prototype devices and products ranging from automotive and aerospace applications to micro/nanoscale metastructures, as examples). Three-dimensional (3D) printing has…

This paper presents a newly developed plastic scintillator produced in collaboration with Turkiye Energy, Nuclear and Mineral Research Agency (TENMAK). The scintillator is manufactured using thermal polymerization of commercially available…

We present the design, manufacturing technique, and characterization of a 3D-printed broadband graded index millimeter wave absorber. The absorber is additively manufactured using a fused filament fabrication (FFF) 3D printer out of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-05 Matthew Petroff , John Appel , Karwan Rostem , Charles L. Bennett , Joseph Eimer , Tobias Marriage , Joshua Ramirez , Edward J. Wollack