A one printing technique that deploys three lasers can create objects in just seconds, its designers claim. Traditional printers create objects by a time-consuming process of laying 3D microscopic layer or plastic over another. Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, however, have created a device that shines three beams of light onto liquid resin and cures it at exact points. The technique also enables the creation of objects within other objects, a process impossible using traditional bottom-up or top-down printers.
A 3D printing technique that deploys three lasers can create objects in just seconds, its designers claim. Traditional printers create objects by a time-consuming process of laying one microscopic layer or plastic over another. Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, however, have created a device that shines three beams of light onto liquid resin and cures it at exact points. The technique also enables the creation of objects within other objects, a process impossible using traditional bottom-up or top-down printers.