As we already began to discuss in part one of this series, there are already a handful of companies that offer electronics 3D printing platforms and services. Perhaps the most notable, due to the fact that it offered the first commercial electronics 3D printing platform in 2003, is Optomec.

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In 1999, Optomec, which had already begun commercializing directed energy deposition technology from Sandia National Laboratories, was awarded a $9 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a method for depositing a range of materials onto virtually any substrate, using a process known as “direct writing” . This resulted in the Aerosol Jet Printing (AJP) process, which involves the atomization of a given material into a mist before that mist is focused and deposited using an inert gas, spraying it through a thin nozzle onto a substrate. AJP is capable of printing with a wide […]

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