Transactions on Additive Manufacturing Meets Medicine
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2020): Trans. AMMM
https://doi.org/10.18416/AMMM.2020.2009016

Material Properties, Structural Designs, and Printing Technologies

3D selective laser glass etching for medical applications

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Agne Butkute (Femtika Ltd., Vilnius, Lithuania), Tomas Baravykas (Femtika Ltd., Vilnius, Lithuania), Titas Tičkūnas (Femtika Ltd., Vilnius, Lithuania), Linas Jonušauskas (Femtika Ltd., Vilnius, Lithuania), Valdas Sirutkaitis (Laser Research Center, Physics Faculty, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania)

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Abstract

Glass is one of the most common materials in medicine. It is used due to being biologically inert, having excellent optical transparency and possibility to handle it easily. However, there are severe limitations in processing glass structures in 3D fashion at µm scale. In this work we present femtosecond laser-based selective glass etching as an attractive tool to produce medical glass structures. We discuss how it can be used to create various microfluidical and micromechanical systems. The challenges and capabilities related to the technology are highlighted, comparing it to other additive manufacturing techniques.

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Butkute, A., Baravykas, T., Tičkūnas, T., Jonušauskas, L., & Sirutkaitis, V. (2020). 3D selective laser glass etching for medical applications. Transactions on Additive Manufacturing Meets Medicine, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.18416/AMMM.2020.2009016

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