KIT Scientists develop a new 3D-printing system for building submicron structures in record time. 3D printers working in the millimeter range and larger are increasingly used in industrial production processes. Many applications, however, require precise printing on the micrometer scale at a far higher speed.

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Now, researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a system to print highly precise, centimerter-sized objects with submicrometer details at unmatched speeds. Their work was recently published in Advanced Functional Materials.

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To demonstrate not only the speed, but also the reliability of their setup, the team printed a lattice structure of 60 cubic millimeters in size with details down to the micrometer scale. It contains more than 300 billion voxels. (A voxel is the three-dimensional analogue of the pixel in the 2D printing). “We have by far outperformed the record reached by 3D-printed aircraft wings. This is a new world record,” […]

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