This course is a graduate-level introduction to materials processing and manufacturing, with an emphasis on additive manufacturing (AM) and treatment of semiconductor devices and materials. We will consider integrating deposition processing, powder processing, and solidification processing principles. All the main classes of materials and AM processes are covered. Examples of AM manufacturing may include several of the Main AM process classes: vat photopolymerization, extrusion, jet printing, binder jetting, powder bed fusion, directed energy deposition. Supporting fundamentals underpinning the AM unit processes such as polymerization, rheology of melts, slurries and pastes, powder characterization and processing, focused-beam energy sources and their interaction with materials, and solidification of alloys will also be discussed. Relationships between microstructure development and resulting properties are stressed throughout.
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