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Tabletop 3-D System to Print in Glass

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EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, May 13, 2010 — Femtoprint, a new European project, will begin this month with the hope of designing a convenient 3-D laser printer that will print microstructures in glass. With this "femtoprinter," the manufacture of microstructures would no longer be the exclusive realm of big enterprises, according to the project’s coordinator, Dr. Yves Bellouard of the department of mechanical engineering at the University of Technology in Eindhoven. Dr. Yves Bellouard. (Image: Bart van Overbeeke) Microsystems are minuscule machines, hardly visible with the naked eye. They often contain both mechanical...Read full article

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    Published: May 2010
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