3D printing has captivated manufacturers worldwide and has truly revolutionized the future of our technological needs. Virtually any component can be realized; plastics, metals and even clear ...

Researchers have developed an inkjet printing technique that can be used to print optical components such as waveguides, an approach that could advance a variety of devices such as optical sensors ...

WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed an inkjet printing technique that can be used to print optical components such as waveguides. Because the printing approach can also fabricate electronics and ...

The demand for disposable miniature imaging platforms (DMIPs) is growing rapidly. Used for commercial, scientific, medical, and educational purposes, DMIPs have numerous applications but can be ...

Multi-photon lithography and optical tweezers are among the tools driving a new generation of 3D printing that will allow multifunctional devices to be fabricated in a single processing step, explain ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Optical metasurfaces are sub-wavelength nanopatterned layers that interact strongly with light, thus dramatically altering the light properties over a sub-wavelength thickness.

Researchers have developed a new 3D printing method called blurred tomography that can rapidly produce microlenses with commercial-level optical quality. The new method may make it easier and faster ...

Researchers at Tsinghua University in Beijing have developed a 3D printing method that is able to fabricate complex millimeter-scale objects in 0.6s.