{"id":207406,"date":"2025-02-28T03:14:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T09:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/optimized-approach-enables-super-resolution-3d-direct-laser-writing-with-unprecedented-speed-and-resolution"},"modified":"2025-02-28T03:14:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T09:14:50","slug":"optimized-approach-enables-super-resolution-3d-direct-laser-writing-with-unprecedented-speed-and-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/optimized-approach-enables-super-resolution-3d-direct-laser-writing-with-unprecedented-speed-and-resolution","title":{"rendered":"Optimized approach enables super-resolution 3D direct laser writing with unprecedented speed and resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/optimized-approach-enables-super-resolution-3d-direct-laser-writing-with-unprecedented-speed-and-resolution3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, researchers have used high-speed laser writing to create lines spaced just 100 nm apart on a glass substrate. The optimized printing approach could enable super-resolution 3D direct laser writing (DLW) of microlenses, photonics crystals, micro-optical devices, metamaterials and more.<\/p>\n<p>DLW is an additive manufacturing technique that uses a focused laser beam to selectively solidify, or polymerize, a material with nanoscale precision. DLW typically uses multi-photon polymerization to polymerize materials in a precise, 3D manner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncreasing the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/resolution\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">resolution <\/a>\u2014the minimum distance between two adjacent features\u2014is difficult because the intense laser light can cause unwanted exposure in nearby areas during DLW,\u201d said Qiulan Liu, a member of the research team from Zhejiang Lab and Zhejiang University in China. \u201cHowever, by using a unique dual-beam optical setup and a special photoresist, we were able to overcome this challenge and achieve super-resolution DLW.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, researchers have used high-speed laser writing to create lines spaced just 100 nm apart on a glass substrate. The optimized printing approach could enable super-resolution 3D direct laser writing (DLW) of microlenses, photonics crystals, micro-optical devices, metamaterials and more. DLW is an additive manufacturing technique that uses a focused laser beam [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}