The physics of 3D printing with light

P Somers, A Münchinger, S Maruo, C Moser… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
The goal of 3D printing is to realize complex 3D structures by locally adding material in small
volume elements called voxels—in contrast to successively subtracting material by etching …

3D laser micro‐and nanoprinting: challenges for chemistry

C Barner‐Kowollik, M Bastmeyer… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 3D printing is a powerful emerging technology for the tailored fabrication of
advanced functional materials. This Review summarizes the state‐of‐the art with regard to …

Sub-micrometre accurate free-form optics by three-dimensional printing on single-mode fibres

T Gissibl, S Thiele, A Herkommer, H Giessen - Nature Communications, 2016 - nature.com
Micro-optics are widely used in numerous applications, such as beam shaping, collimation,
focusing and imaging. We use femtosecond 3D printing to manufacture free-form micro …

Enhancing optical anisotropy of crystals by optimizing bonding electron distribution in anionic groups

BH Lei, Z Yang, S Pan - Chemical Communications, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The response electron distribution anisotropy (REDA) approximation was proposed to
analyze the relationship between optical anisotropy and distribution of bonding electrons in …

Challenges and opportunities in 3D laser printing based on (1+ 1)-photon absorption

V Hahn, NM Bojanowski, P Rietz, F Feist… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Most light-based 3D printing methods rely on optical or chemical nonlinearities to spatially
confine the polymerization reaction. In 3D micro-and nanoprinting, this nonlinearity can be …

Single-color peripheral photoinhibition lithography of nanophotonic structures

M He, Z Zhang, C Cao, Y Qiu, X Shen, G Zhou, Z Cai… - PhotoniX, 2022 - Springer
Advances in direct laser writing to attain super-resolution are required to improve fabrication
performance and develop potential applications for nanophotonics. In this study, a novel …

Dip-in photoresist for photoinhibited two-photon lithography to realize high-precision direct laser writing on wafer

C Cao, Y Qiu, L Guan, Z Wei, Z Yang… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
For decades, photoinhibited two-photon lithography (PI-TPL) has been continually
developed and applied into versatile nanofabrication. However, ultrahigh precision …

Two-and three-photon processes during photopolymerization in 3D laser printing

A Mauri, P Kiefer, P Neidinger, T Messer… - Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The performance of a photoinitiator is key to control efficiency and resolution in 3D laser
nanoprinting. Upon light absorption, a cascade of competing photophysical processes leads …

A 3D nanoscale optical disk memory with petabit capacity

M Zhao, J Wen, Q Hu, X Wei, YW Zhong, H Ruan, M Gu - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
High-capacity storage technologies are needed to meet our ever-growing data demands,.
However, data centres based on major storage technologies such as semiconductor flash …

Search for alternative two‐step‐absorption photoinitiators for 3D laser nanoprinting

NM Bojanowski, A Vranic, V Hahn… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent studies have opened the door to a new generation of photoinitiators for 3D laser
nanoprinting. Therein, the simultaneous absorption of two photons, commonly referred to as …