Today's microfabrication tools can make simple 2D shapes fast or complex 3D shapes slowly. With our entirely new manufacturing method, we produce complex 3D geometries at mass-production speeds, all while retaining sub-micron feature sizes.
For complex microscopic 3D shapes, two-photon lithography is the (painfully slow) standard
Single-photon polymerization is a less-controllable but much faster reaction than two-photon polymerization. Our algorithms and material chemistry fully compensate the harder-to-control single-photon lithography. We can print 1000 times faster than two-photon lithography while retaining the same precision
We call our technique Volumetric Micro-Lithography
The Photosynthetic D1
Full 3D control
Sub-micron resolution
Mass-production speeds
Polymer-based fabrication (for now)