Three-Dimensional Printing in Power Electronics Manufacturing [Happenings]

Three-Dimensional Printing in power electronics manufacturing Three-dimensional (3-D) printing has been around since at least the early 1980s. By now, the basic concept is widely known and well understood. A largely planar object is formed by processing a material only at selected locations on a plane, producing a result that has some small projection in the direction perpendicular to the plane. A new plane is defined a small distance above the original plane, and another planar object, which can be the same as or different from the first, is formed in the second plane. The second planar object is fused to the first over their area of overlap. The process is repeated over and over, and one or more solid objects are formed.