Facility

Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) System

Advanced Multi-Laser Additive Manufacturing Platform

A leading-edge open-architecture LPBF platform equipped with a 3D protection gas flow control system and precision motion control.

• Lasers & Optics

  • 2 × nLight AFX 1000 1070 nm 7-Mode Programmable Fiber Lasers

  • 2 × JCZ FalconScan 1064 nm / 30 mm Aperture Variable Profile Laser Scanners

  • 2 × In-house customized beam shaping controllers

  • 2 × In-house customized laser fire and path controllers

• Motion & Mechanical Components

  • 1 × ThorLabs MLJ250 Programmable High-Precision Vertical Stage

  • 1 × 250 mm Linear Rail Guide

  • 2 × 1000 mm / 250 kg Heavy-Duty Linear Rail Guides

  • 1 × ThorLabs Nexus 8’×4’ Optical Table (12″ Thick) with Adjustable Stabilizing Supports

• Support & Environmental Systems

  • 1 × S&A CWFL-3000 Water Chiller (3000 W)

  • 1 × Pixelated Protection Gas Flow Control System

  • 1 × Smoke Filtering System

  • 2 × Portable chambers for small-volume testing

Machining and Prototyping Equipment

Precision Manufacturing for Part Fabrication and System Integration

• 1 × LF400-C Wire EDM (580 × 820 mm table, 400 mm depth, 8 µm repeatability)

• 1 × X-Tool F1 Ultra Dual Laser Engraver and Cutter

• 1 × TORMACH PCNC 440 CNC Mill

• 1 × Drill Press (8″)

• 1 × DeWalt 14″ Cut-Off Saw

• 1 × Belt Sander

• 1 × Table Saw

• DeWalt Hand Tools: Drill (1x), Reciprocating Saw (1x), Impactor (1x)

Additive Manufacturing and Prototyping Printers

Multi-Material 3D Printing for Rapid Part Development

• 1 × ANYCUBIC Photon Mono M7 Max Resin Printer

• 1 × ANYCUBIC Photon Mono M5s Resin Printer

• 1 × ANYCUBIC Photon M3 Max Resin Printer

• 1 × ANYCUBIC Wash & Cure 3 Plus System

• 2 × Original PRUSA MK4 FFF/FDM Printers

• 1 × Creality Ender 3 FFF/FDM Printer

Licensed Software

Simulation and Design Tools for Multi-Physics and Engineering Applications

• COMSOL Multiphysics (Base + Acoustic Modules)

• MATLAB

• Autodesk Suite

• SolidWorks

• ANSYS R4

Computational Resources

High-Performance Workstations for Simulation and AI-Driven Modeling

• AMD ThreadRipper 7970X (32C/64T) | 128 GB RAM

• AMD Ryzen 7900X (12C/24T) + NVIDIA RTX 4090 (24 GB) | 64 GB RAM

• AMD Ryzen 5950X (16C/32T) + NVIDIA RTX 4090 (24 GB) | 64 GB RAM

In-Situ Sensing and Data Acquisition

High-Speed Imaging and Thermal Monitoring for Process Diagnostics

• High-Speed Cameras

  • 2 × CHRONOS 1.4-HD Monochrome (1280p @ 1000 fps / 320p @ 40400 fps)

• Thermal Imaging

  • 1 × Micro-Epsilon thermoIMAGER TIM VGA MWIR (−20 °C – 1500 °C)

  • 1 × Micro-Epsilon thermoIMAGER TIM M-1 NIR (450 °C – 1800 °C)

• Lighting and Electronics

  • 1 × Godox SL300 III Illumination System

  • 1 × Siglent SDG 1032X Waveform Generator

  • 1 × Siglent SDS1104X-E 100 MHz Oscilloscope

  • 1 × Atrix MP5-3005H Triple-Channel DC Power Supply

  • 2 × PCA9685 16-Channel PWM Servo Driver Boards

  • 32 × Digikey U160 H-Bridge Units (STM32F030)

  • Digikey Motor Drivers: DRI0002 (×4), A000079 (×4)

  • Arduino Boards: Portenta Mid Carrier (×2), Portenta H7 (×1), MEGA2560 (×4)

• Ultrasonic Transducers

  • 2 × Yushi 5 MHz / 14 mm Circular

  • 4 × Yushi 10 MHz / 10 mm Circular

  • 1 × Yushi 5 MHz / 13 mm Square

Post-Process Inspection

Microscopy and Visual Analysis for Material Characterization

• 2 × Carson MicroBrite Plus 60×-120× LED Microscopes

• 1 × AmScope B120 Series 40×-2500× Binocular Compound Microscope