High-aspect 3D two-photon polymerization structuring with widened objective working range (WOW-2PP)

Light: Science and Applications

Volumn 2, Issue DECEMBER, 2013, Pages

  Obata, Kotaro ^a   El Tamer, Ayman ^a   Koch, Lothar ^a   Hinze, Ulf ^a   Chichkov, Boris N ^a  

^a LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

Femtosecond laser; Large scale structuring; Laser material processing; Photochemistry; Two photon polymerization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891816156     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20477538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/lsa.2013.72     Document Type: Article

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