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Silicon photonics enables chip-based 3D printer
Original: Silicon-photonics-enabled chip-based 3D printer (2024)
Researchers have demonstrated a 3D printer built on a silicon photonics chip, described in a 2024 Light: Science & Applications paper. Instead of bulky optical components, the chip directs light on-chip to drive the printing process, pointing toward printers small enough to fit in a handheld device. Commenters are discussing the engineering behind shrinking additive manufacturing optics onto a photonic chip and what such compact fabrication could eventually enable.
Why now: A newly published demonstration of shrinking a 3D printer's optics onto a silicon photonics chip is drawing attention for its potential to miniaturize additive manufacturing.
Light: Science & Applicationssilicon photonics3D printing
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- Silicon-photonics-enabled chip-based 3D printer (2024) · peter_d_sherman · 10
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