Nanoscribe is the pioneer of German high-precision additive manufacturing system. On December 5, 2018, we learned from foreign media that the company recently launched the Photonic Professional GT2 3D printer for micromachining and maskless lithography.
As the successor to the Photonic Professional GT 3D printer, the GT2 has an enlarged print room that can accommodate millimeter-sized parts and print heights of up to 8 millimeters.
Nanoscribe CEO Martin Hermatschweiler said: "Extending the maximum print volume to the macro scale is a great desire of our customers and industrial project partners. Since we have completed the development of optoelectronic equipment with great success, we have now successfully overcome Previous physical limitations and more than 10 times productivity and speed. "
Photonic Professional GT2 3D printer
Nanoscribe devices specialize in nano, micro, and medium-sized additive manufacturing. The original Photonic Professional GT 3D printer was designed to produce nano and microstructured plastic components and molds using two-photon polymerization. In this process, a portion of the fluid light-sensitive material is cured by the laser, which is cured layer by layer. With two-photon polymerization, resolutions can be as low as 200 nanometers or as high as a few millimeters.
On the other hand, GT2 can now produce objects with sub-micron details on printed areas up to 100 × 100mm2 in a short time, usually in the 160 nanometer to millimeter range.
In addition, with GT2, users can choose multiple sets of objectives, substrates, materials and automated processes tailored to their application. The system also has a user-friendly 3D printing workflow for making individual elements. These elements can create the greatest shape accuracy and surface smoothness, meeting the requirements of microlenses in the smartphone industry or filament holder structures in cell biology.
Filament structures up to the millimeter range can be printed at the highest resolution. Photo from Nanoscribe.
Microfabrication and 3D printing
The Photonic Professional GT2 3D printer is said to significantly reduce product development cycles in microfluidic components (filters or nozzles), chip lab structures, or miniature rapid prototyping processes.
In addition, the system can be used in the field of sensor and actuator technology. Various product components can now be printed quickly on MEMS components or silicon chips without further adjustments.
The GT2 system also aims to open up new possibilities in the field of medical technology, such as the direct printing of micro-optics on the glass fibers of minimally invasive endoscopes.