Electrohydrodynamic(EHD)jet printing is a promising method for high-resolution manufacturing;however,it often suffers from jet deflection owing to the accumulation of residual charges within printed structures.These r...Electrohydrodynamic(EHD)jet printing is a promising method for high-resolution manufacturing;however,it often suffers from jet deflection owing to the accumulation of residual charges within printed structures.These residual charges lead to jet deflection.This study introduces a novel noncontact electric field-driven(NEFD)jet micro 3D printing technique to address these challenges.By decoupling the high-voltage power supply from both the printing material and substrate,NEFD jet micro 3D printing eliminates the pathway for charge injection into the printing material,reducing residual charges by a factor of five or more compared to EHD jet printing.Our research revealed an inherent attractive force between the material jet and previously deposited material,regardless of the material used.Furthermore,we demonstrate that employing a pre-defined allowance printing strategy during fabrication reduces the standard deviation of actual fiber spacing values from 11.4μm to 1.5μm,thereby improving the fiber spacing consistency.This enhanced control enabled the successful fabrication of line patterns with 20±1μm fiber diameters and 61.1±1.9μm fiber spacing,demonstrating the feasibility of NEFD jet micro 3D printing.This technique offers a novel solution for mitigating the challenges associated with electric fields and charge accumulation in EHD jet printing,paving the way for enhanced resolution and material compatibility in micro-/nanoscale additive manufacturing.展开更多
Catenary optics enables metasurfaces with higher efficiency and wider bandwidth,and is highly anticipated in the imaging system,super-resolution lithography,and broadband absorbers.However,the periodic boundary approx...Catenary optics enables metasurfaces with higher efficiency and wider bandwidth,and is highly anticipated in the imaging system,super-resolution lithography,and broadband absorbers.However,the periodic boundary approximation without considering aperiodic electromagnetic crosstalk poses challenges for catenary optical devices to reach their performance limits.Here,perfect control of both local geometric and propagation phases is realized through field-driven optimization,in which the field distribution is calculated under real boundary conditions.Different from other optimization methods requiring a mass of iterations,the proposed design method requires less than ten iterations to get the efficiency close to the optimal value.Based on the library of shape-optimized catenary structures,centimeter-scale devices can be designed in ten seconds,with the performance improved by ~15%.Furthermore,this method has the ability to extend catenary-like continuous structures to arbitrary polarization,including both linear and elliptical polarizations,which is difficult to achieve with traditional design methods.It provides a way for the development of catenary optics and serves as a potent tool for constructing high-performance optical devices.展开更多
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.52275345,52175331,51875300)Support Plan for Outstanding Youth Innovation Team in Universities of Shandong Province,China(Grant No.2021KJ044)Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province,China(Grant No.ZR2020ZD04).
文摘Electrohydrodynamic(EHD)jet printing is a promising method for high-resolution manufacturing;however,it often suffers from jet deflection owing to the accumulation of residual charges within printed structures.These residual charges lead to jet deflection.This study introduces a novel noncontact electric field-driven(NEFD)jet micro 3D printing technique to address these challenges.By decoupling the high-voltage power supply from both the printing material and substrate,NEFD jet micro 3D printing eliminates the pathway for charge injection into the printing material,reducing residual charges by a factor of five or more compared to EHD jet printing.Our research revealed an inherent attractive force between the material jet and previously deposited material,regardless of the material used.Furthermore,we demonstrate that employing a pre-defined allowance printing strategy during fabrication reduces the standard deviation of actual fiber spacing values from 11.4μm to 1.5μm,thereby improving the fiber spacing consistency.This enhanced control enabled the successful fabrication of line patterns with 20±1μm fiber diameters and 61.1±1.9μm fiber spacing,demonstrating the feasibility of NEFD jet micro 3D printing.This technique offers a novel solution for mitigating the challenges associated with electric fields and charge accumulation in EHD jet printing,paving the way for enhanced resolution and material compatibility in micro-/nanoscale additive manufacturing.
基金financial supports from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.62175242,U20A20217,61975210,and 62305345)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2021T140670)。
文摘Catenary optics enables metasurfaces with higher efficiency and wider bandwidth,and is highly anticipated in the imaging system,super-resolution lithography,and broadband absorbers.However,the periodic boundary approximation without considering aperiodic electromagnetic crosstalk poses challenges for catenary optical devices to reach their performance limits.Here,perfect control of both local geometric and propagation phases is realized through field-driven optimization,in which the field distribution is calculated under real boundary conditions.Different from other optimization methods requiring a mass of iterations,the proposed design method requires less than ten iterations to get the efficiency close to the optimal value.Based on the library of shape-optimized catenary structures,centimeter-scale devices can be designed in ten seconds,with the performance improved by ~15%.Furthermore,this method has the ability to extend catenary-like continuous structures to arbitrary polarization,including both linear and elliptical polarizations,which is difficult to achieve with traditional design methods.It provides a way for the development of catenary optics and serves as a potent tool for constructing high-performance optical devices.
