One-Photon 3D-Printed Sub-micron Fused Silica Glass with Its Applications in Metamaterials and Devices
亞微米精度單光子3D打印熔融石英玻璃及其超構材料與器件應用
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
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Abstract
Glass made from silica has a history of thousands of years, and its applications have accompanied the evolution of human civilization. From everyday life to cutting-edge industries, such as micro-optics, micro-electronics, and micro-fluidics, necessitates the high-precision manufacturing of three-dimensional (3D) fused silica glass objects. Advanced 3D printing technologies have emerged as a powerful tool for fabricating arbitrary glass objects with ultimate freedom and precision. Stereolithography and femtosecond direct writing showed their capability in shaping 3D glass objects with ~50 μm and ~100 nm features, respectively, however, to efficiently fabricating glass structures with centimeter size and sub-micron features still remains challenge. Presented here, our study demonstrates that the gap can be effectively bridged by engineering of appropriate materials, 3D printing based on one-photon micro-stereolithography (OμSL), allows the flexible creation of transparent and high-performance fused silica glass components with sophisticated, 3D sub-micron architectures. The methodology facilitates the construction of fused silica glass components with arbitrary 3D-specific geometries featuring fine details as small as 800 nm, while also enabling rapid prototyping of structures of several millimeters. This offers unprecedented possibilities across a range of applications in both metamaterials as well as devices, including micro-lattices, micro-mechanical devices, micro-optics, and engineered micro-surfaces.
- Metamaterials, 3D printing, Nanomanufacturing, Glass