The Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS has succeeded in increasing the stability of those aircraft engine parts which are subject to stress due to temperature. The IWS process helps to reduce kerosene consumption as well as CO2 emissions. In combination with further measures, significant cost savings result during flight operations. The research Read more about Improved efficiency of aircraft engines[…]
When assembling miniaturized optical systems, it is often necessary to place micro-optical elements such as single lenses or lens arrays above sensors or light-emitting devices at a specific distance. Despite of the trend of miniaturization, most of today’s standard rapid prototyping technologies do not provide the high resolution and minimum feature size that are necessary Read more about The highest-resolution additive manufacturing technology available today with layer thicknesses and feature sizes below 1 µm[…]