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A Study on the Use of Extrusion-based Additive Manufacturing for Electrostatic Discharge Compliant Components from PEEK-Carbon Nanotube Composite

abstract: Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) is a unique issue in the electronics industry that can cause failures of electrical components and complete electronic systems. There is an entire industry that is focused on developing ESD compliant tooling using traditional manufacturing methods. This research work evaluates the feasibility to fabricate a PEEK-Carbon Nanotube composite filament for Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) Additive Manufacturing that is ESD compliant. In addition, it demonstrates that the FFF process can be used to print tools with the required accuracy, ESD compliance and mechanical properties necessary for the electronics industry at a low rate production level. Current Additive Manufacturing technology can print high temperature polymers, such as PEEK, with the required mechanical properties but they are not ESD compliant and require post processing to create a product that is. There has been some research conducted using mixed multi-wall and single wall carbon nanotubes in a PEEK polymers, which improves mechanical properties while reducing bulk resistance to the levels required to be ESD compliant. This previous research has been used to develop a PEEK-CNT polymer matrix for the Fused Filament Fabrication additive manufacturing process / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Engineering 2020

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:57198
Date January 2020
ContributorsChurchwell, Raymond L (Author), Sugar, Thomas (Advisor), Rogers, Bradley (Committee member), Morrell, Darryl (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher)
Source SetsArizona State University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeMasters Thesis
Format56 pages
Rightshttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

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