Metal and Ceramic Micro Components Made by Powder Injection Molding

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To overcome the lack of micro manufacturing processes suitable for medium and large scale production as well as to process high resistive materials a special variant of micro injection molding is currently under development: micro powder injection molding (MicroPIM), which already enables the manufacturing of finest detailed components with structure sizes down to a few ten micrometer. In order to expand the scope of application of MicroPIM, tests are being conducted with pure tungsten powders or tungsten alloy powders. As further improvement, micro twocomponent injection molding allows, for example, the fabrication of micro components consisting of two ceramic materials with different physical properties.

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Materials Science Forum (Volumes 534-536)

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373-376

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https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.534-536.373

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January 2007

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Volker Piotter, G. Finnah, B. Zeep, Robert Ruprecht, Jürgen Haußelt

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Ceramic Injection Molding (CIM), Micro Injection Moulding, MIM, Powder Injection Molding (PIM), Two-Component Injection Molding

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