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2022/04/25

Nanoscribe presents key microfabrication technologies for industrial innovations in microoptics and photonic packaging

Nanoscribe, a BICO company, will present its key solutions for microoptics and photonics this week at LASER World of PHOTONICS in Munich, Germany. At the world’s leading exhibition for photonic components, systems and applications, Nanoscribe will showcase the latest achievements of its microfabrication technologies in terms of performance and alignment for advanced applications in integrated photonics, photonic packaging and microoptics. In addition to its regular booth (341, hall A5), Nanoscribe is also part of the first World of QUANTUM, a new exhibition area highlighting enabling technologies for quantum technologies and its exciting applications.

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2022/03/09

Nanoscribe introduces the Extra Large Features (XLF) Print Set

Nanoscribe, a BICO company, introduces the Extra Large Features (XLF) Print Set, to expand the manufacturing range for its high-precision 3D printer Quantum X shape from nano- and microscale structures to millimeter- and centimeter-sized objects, while maintaining particularly complex structures and filigree details. But above all, the new XLF Print Set speeds up high-precision 3D printing many times over, making Quantum X shape the preferred choice for batch production of voluminous millimeter- and even centimeter-sized objects for the first time.

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2022/01/26

Nanoscribe partners with PHIX to drive industrial innovation in photonic packaging market

Nanoscribe, a BICO company, and the Dutch photonics packaging foundry PHIX B.V. have announced a collaboration to provide on-fiber printing services to the photonic packaging industry. With Nanoscribe’s new high-performance 3D microlens printing technology with nano-precision alignment capabilities, PHIX relies on this new technological approach in their manufacturing services of standard lensed fiber arrays (LFAs). The PHIX service portfolio will then contain the manufacturing of Free Space Microoptical Coupling (FSMOC) components printed directly on fiber arrays and photonic integrated circuits (PICs). This extends PHIX’s portfolio for bringing hybrid integration into mass production.

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Discover our mediapool with a fascinating variety of pictures to explain our microfabrication technologies as well as to give impressing benchmark applications in research, rapid prototyping and industrial mastering. The images are intended for non-commercial use only.

Nanoscribe in pictures

The ZEISS Innovation Hub @KIT is the headquarters of Nanoscribe, under one roof with innovation teams of ZEISS, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and high-tech start-ups. The hub offers an inspiring place for Nanoscribe, with modern facilities and more than 4,200 m² space to shape the future of microfabrication technologies and solutions.

Nanoscribe Management Board — Nanoscribe is a vibrant, award-winning company headquartered in Karlsruhe, as a spin-off of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The pioneer and market leader in high-precision additive manufacturing is deeply rooted in research and development, and so Chief Science Officer and co-founder Dr. Michael Thiel (left) is part of the management board, along with Chief Financial Officer Lars Tritschler (middle) and CEO and co-founder Martin Hermatschweiler (right).

Nanoscribe's Microfabrication Experience Center — The Microfabrication Experience Center is located at Nanoscribe’s headquarters and offers spacious laboratory, exhibition, and conference rooms for product demonstrations, feasibility testing and training as well as workshops covering the entire microfabrication spectrum.

Nanoscribe's maskless lithography system Quantum X — The world’s first Two-Photon Grayscale Lithography (2GL ®) system offers additive microfabrication for 2D and 2.5D microstructures. The maskless lithography system combines the extraordinary performance of grayscale lithography with the precision and flexibility of Nanoscribe’s pioneering Two-Photon Polymerization technology. Nanoscribe Quantum X offers submicrometer resolution, ultrafast control over voxel size, automated processes and the precision needed for ultra-smooth topographies with high shape accuracy.

Nanoscribe's Photonic Professional GT2 — Nanoscribe’s Photonic Professional GT2 is the world’s highest resolution 3D printer. The system’s underlying Two-Photon Polymerization is a pioneering technology for extremely precise additive manufacturing of nano-, micro- and mesosized structures and objects. The Nanoscribe ecosystem combines flexibility in 3D design with straightforward processes and workflows, as well as a wide range of printing materials and substrates. More than 3,000 system users benefit from rapid prototyping and manufacturing processes in research laboratories, multi-user facilities and production sites in academia and industry.

The Demolab is the heart of the Microfabrication Experience Center at Nanoscribe's headquarters — The Demolab is the heart of the Microfabrication Experience Center at Nanoscribe’s headquarter. The laboratory with yellow light conditions is equipped with all Nanoscribe printer lines. During product demonstration or (online) training sessions, visitors can get first-hand impressions of Photonic Professional GT2 and Quantum X. To demonstrate and practice the entire printing workflows, the laboratory also offers further production and characterization equipment.

Applications in scientific microfabrication

Cell culturing or cell seeding is the most common technique to combine Two-Photon Polymerization (2PP) microfabrication of the Quantum X bio with cell research. This image shows a 3D-printed microwell arrays for cell culturing. The fluorescent NIH 3T3 cells are attached to the biocompatible scaffold made of the photoresin Nanoscribe IP-S whereby they proliferate.

Microneedles — The 3D-printed microneedles in this image demonstrate the capabilities of Nanoscribe’s 3D Microfabrication technology to realize applications with high aspect ratios, shape accuracy and sharp tips. The design variations also represent many possible biomedical applications such as microfluidic devices, drug delivery vectors, microrobots and biosensors.

Photonic particle-accelerator — The photonic particle-accelerator in this image consists of an air waveguide inside a silicon 3D photonic crystal. This application provides impressive evidence of the complex design capabilities and enormously small feature sizes realized with Nanoscribe’s 3D Microfabrication systems. © Wegener Group, KIT

Miniature optical endoscope — This image shows the visualization of a 3D-printed miniature optical endoscope inside a blood vessel. To fabricate the novel microoptical tool with a width of merely 125 micrometers, the researchers used a Nanoscribe Photonic Professional 3D printer system. The additive manufactured device enables endoscopic examinations within blood vessels of less than half a millimeter diameter to detect plaques, thrombi and cholesterol crystals. © Florian Sterl, Sterltech Optics

Wafer with array of micromechanical structures — This image shows an array of micromechanical structures providing evidence for rapid and high-precision small series production of mechanical components on wafers up to 6’’. With Nanoscribe Quantum X shape it is possible to print 200 typical structures overnight.

Vascular model — Two-Photon Polymerization is a versatile microfabrication technology. Thus, it becomes possible to realize different variants of complex vascular models and across multiple scales. These vascular models are thought to mimic in vitro environments and phenomena. The one shown here is a simple vascular model with dyed water.

Applications in mastering and industrial processes

Nanoscribe's Two-Photon Grayscale Lithography (2GL ®) meets new trends in optical design engineering by redefining the design scope of refractive and diffractive microoptics. Quantum X, the world’s first Two-Photon Grayscale Lithography system, advances the maskless microfabrication of extremely flat optics, like Fresnel lenses for focused illumination like the one shown in this image.

Single lenses with spherical, aspherical and freeform shapes — Nanoscribe’s Two-Photon Grayscale Lithography (2GL ®) is used for the fabrication of all kind of topographies, with ultra-smooth surfaces, redefining the microfabrication of freeform microoptics, microlens arrays and multi-level diffractive optical elements. The image shows single lenses with spherical, aspherical and freeform shapes.

Lensed fiber array (LFA) — This microscope image shows a 3D-printed lensed fiber array (LFA). The microscope image clearly demonstrates how precise the optical projection of lensed fibers is. Here, green light is collimated into parallel light beams. Sample of the research project MiLiQuant.

Cutting-edge microfabrication technologies

one-photon absorption vs. two-photon absorption — This infographic shows the polymerization profile (blue) of one-photon (left) versus two-photon absorption (right). One-photon absorption leads to the polymerization of the photoresin throughout the full exposed volume (left), exponentially decaying in depth (Beer’s law). Whereas two-photon absorption only occurs in the much smaller voxel at the focal volume (right). The absorption triggering Two-Photon Polymerization is proportional to the square of the local intensity. Only in this volume the intensity is high enough for simultaneous absorption of two photons.

2PP hardware setup — This infographic schematically illustrates the Two-Photon Polymerization (2PP) hardware setup. Rotating galvo mirrors steer the laser focus across the focal xy-plane. The enlarged sketch shows how Two-Photon Polymerization is used in Nanoscribe’s Dip-in Laser Lithography (DiLL) by dipping an objective lens directly into the liquid photoresin for an aberration-constant printing, enabling precise microfabrication even on opaque substrates.

Two-Photon Polymerization compared to Two-Photon Grayscale Lithography — This infographic compares Two-Photon Polymerization (2PP) with Two-Photon Grayscale Lithography (2GL ®). Printing a microlens with 2PP requires splitting the design into several layers to create the shape of the lens. With 2GL, an accurate lens contour can be realized by modulating the voxel size in one plane, resulting in a more precise contour with significantly fewer layers than with 2PP.

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