Femtosecond (fs) lasers are well established in material processing. Both additive and subtractive processing can be realized with them. Modern amplified fs laser systems can be heavily tuned allowing to use single light source to realize all relevant processing regimes. In this work we exploit it in order to achieve hybrid additive-subtractive 3D micro- and nanomanufacturing. For fabrication we chose highly promising medical devices such as very precise flow meter cell membrane perforators based on microblades or spinning microneedles. We show that the capability of choosing processing regime and perform everything in one workstation simplifies design and fabrication process.
Femtosecond laser based 3D nanolithography is gaining popularity in huge variety of fields. However, further improvements are needed to push it from laboratory level use into a wide spread adaptation. In this work we present several advances needed to achieve this goal. First, linear stage and galvo-scanners synchronization is employed to produce stitch-free mm-sized structures with features down to micrometers. Furthermore, it is shown that by varying objective numerical apertures (NA) from 0.8 NA to 1.4 NA voxel size can be tuned in the range of 330 nm to 1.7 μm in transverse and 1.9 μm to 7.9 μm in longitudinal directions, resulting in voxel volumes from 0.017 μm3 to 3.759 μm3 with structuring rates at 2426 μm3/s and 104767 μm3/s respectively at 1 cm/s translation velocity. This two orders of magnitude tunability is exploited to fabricate various functional structures. It includes 2 mm diameter functional micro-lens, cantilever capable of sustaining multiple deformation cycles and free-movable micromechanical spider and squid (overall size - up to 5 mm), showing possibility to print true 3D hinge-like microstructures (feature size down to micrometers) for possible uses in microrobotics. Overall, the presented results show simple and straight-forward way to combine resolution on-demand and stitch-free 3D laser lithography for functional structure fabrication needed for fast expanding science and/or engineering fields.
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