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Chip-based 3D printer uses silicon photonics, researchers report
Original: Silicon-photonics-enabled chip-based 3D printer (2024)
Researchers have demonstrated a 3D printer built on a silicon-photonics chip, described in a 2024 paper in Light: Science & Applications. The approach replaces bulky optical components with chip-integrated photonic circuitry, pointing toward printers small enough to fit in a backpack. Commenters on Hacker News are discussing the optical engineering behind the device and what miniaturized additive manufacturing could mean for the field.
Why now: A newly highlighted Nature-family paper showing 3D printing hardware shrunk onto a photonic chip is drawing technical curiosity
Light: Science & Applicationssilicon photonics3D printingHacker News
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- Silicon-photonics-enabled chip-based 3D printer (2024) · peter_d_sherman · 10
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