Publications by Cyril Dénéréaz

Light-Based Printing of Leachable Salt Molds for Facile Shaping of Complex Structures

3D printing is a powerful manufacturing technology for shaping materials into complex structures. While the palette of printable materials continues to expand, the rheological and chemical requisites for printing are not always easy to fulfill. Here, a uni ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2022

3D metal freeform micromanufacturing

Andreas Mortensen, Yves Bellouard, Raphaël Charvet, Fatmah Ebrahim, Cyril Dénéréaz, Léa Deillon, Tao Yang, Enrico Casamenti, Luciano Borasi, Sacha Jérémy Florentin Pollonghini

Despite remarkable progress made in recent years, producing freeform three-dimensional micro-components out of copper, silver or gold and their alloys remains an engineering challenge: current processes are either too slow to be economically viable, or pro ...

2021

Compression testing spherical particles for strength: Theory of the meridian crack test and implementation for microscopic fused quartz

Andreas Mortensen, Goran Zagar, Raphaël Charvet, Cyril Dénéréaz, Václav Pejchal

We show that uniaxial compression testing of spherical particles can give unambiguous access to their tensile strength as governed by surface flaws if one uses pairs of elasto-plastic platens, tailoring their hardness in order to control the relative area ...

2017

Small-scale metal castings, small-scale metal/transparent composite structures and process to produce same

Andreas Mortensen, Yves Bellouard, Raphaël Charvet, Cyril Dénéréaz

The method comprises at least the following steps: - exposing a substrate to focused laser irradiation at a preselected series of locations that trace a subset of the substrate volume that is connected to the surface of the substrate; some subsets of subst ...

2017