Micro/Nanoscale 3D Printing: Hacking a Blu-ray Player

Macro 3D printing technologies have been booming for the past decade. However, printing at the micro/nanoscale is today tedious and slow. Throughput is a longstanding bottleneck in the 3D printing field, and it is challenging to print large areas with micro/nano features. This VILLUM Experiment proposes a Blu-ray player based compact, low-cost, multi-material and high-throughput micro/nanoscale 3D printing technique, which is potentially 4,400 times faster than conventional systems.