WO2008063433A2 - Polymer object optical fabrication process - Google Patents
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- This invention relates, generally, to microstereolithography. More particularly, it relates to a non-degenerate two-photon approach to projection microstereolithography.
- Microstereolithography enables the manufacturing of small and complex three-dimensional components from plastic materials.
- One-photon polymerization is a process that causes a photo-initiator monomer concentration to induce a photochemical reaction, which in turn causes the concentration to cross-link and solidify.
- the process is the basis for most commercially available stereolithography systems.
- Two-photon polymerization is a technique for the fabrication of three dimensional micron and sub-micron structures.
- a beam of ultra fast infrared laser is focused into a container holding a photo-sensitive material to initiate the polymerization process by non-linear absorption within the focal volume. By focusing the laser in three dimensions and moving the laser through the resin, a three dimensional structure can be fabricated.
- Two-photon microstereolithography enables three dimensional processing as well as high complexity microfabrication.
- One-photon based microstereolithography techniques fabricate in a surface layer-by-layer approach that ultimately limits the process to rapid prototyping and some small production runs of micropolymer structures.
- the surface layer-by-layer approach also limits the geometries of objects that can be fabricated due to surface tension or release layer issues, and requires an extensive network of support structure to be digitally inserted into three- dimensional models via support structure insertion algorithms. All of these factors limit the fabrication process and slows the overall throughput of micropolymer structures.
- microstereolithography there also exists a gap between prototyping of complex micro geometries using microstereolithography and mass production of complex geometries.
- the ideal microstereolithography device would allow any complexity in geometry, need no support structure, and enable rapid prototyping, mass-production, and mass customization from a single machine.
- Two-photon absorption can occur in two forms: degenerate and non- degenerate.
- the process is known as degenerate if the photons absorbed are of the same wavelength.
- the process is known as non-degenerate when the photons absorbed are of two-different wavelengths.
- Non-degenerate two-photon polymerization using two lasers of two different wavelengths, increases set-up costs, requires optical hardware having a more complex configuration and dual laser pulse synchronization.
- a non- degenerate configuration offers distinct advantages that have an impact on the overall throughput and versatility of the fabrication system.
- Non-degenerate systems offer more control over the geometry of the reaction volume due to the fact that the reaction volume is confined only to the overlapping beams of the appropriate wavelengths.
- the rate of degenerate two-photon absorption, in a dual intersecting beam degenerate two-photon configuration, increases where the two beams intersect but photo-absorption also occurs in the light path prior to the desired reaction volume if the beams enter a sample already tightly collimated, or at a low numerical aperture.
- This configuration causes some two-photon absorption (TPA) in the beam delivery paths with an increase in absorption occurring at the intersection of the two beams, thus limiting the overall irradiance that is deliverable to the desired fabrication volume. This situation also limits the achievable speed of photopolymerization and feature size resolution.
- novel two-photon projection microstereolithography process incorporates an innovative non-degenerate two-photon approach to projection microstereolithography. More particularly, non-degenerate two-photon absorption enables single-step, all digital, mass fabrication of micro-polymer or polymer-derived-ceramic structures of virtually any three-dimensional geometry directly from computer model design files.
- POOF Polymer Object Optical Fabrication
- TPIP photon induced photopolymerization
- DLP Texas Instrument's Digital Light Processor
- TM. projection technology into the two-photon fabrication process introduces a highly parallel approach to microstereolithography that substantially reduces or eliminates the need for support structure, provides unlimited part geometrical complexity (within a finite range of micro resolution smallest feature sizes) in resulting parts, and provides the optical and mechanical configuration that enables rapid prototyping, high-volume mass- production, and mass-customization of micro polymer and micro-polymer- derived-ceramic structures from a single machine in a single step.
- This process is used in conjunction with photoinitiators with a high two- photon absorption cross-section combined with various acrylates, vinyl ethers, epoxies, bio-degradable hydrogels, elastomers, or polymer-derived-ceramics to make complex microstructures for Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and integrated complex three-dimensional optical circuitry for MicroOptoElectroMechanical (MOEMS) devices for a wide range of industries.
- MEMS Micro Electro Mechanical Systems
- MOEMS MicroOptoElectroMechanical
- POOF technology will be an integral tool in the development of polymer and ceramic-based MEMS and MOEMS technologies with a special emphasis on packaging fabrication for current and emerging MEMS and MOEMS devices.
- the fabrication capability of the POOF process enables the fabrication versatility and throughput of micro geometries currently not feasible with existing fabrication techniques.
- FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic side elevational view of a first embodiment
- FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic end view of the FIG. 1 structure
- FIG. 3 is a diagrammatic top plan view of the FIG. 1 structure
- FIG. 4 is a diagrammatic end view of a second embodiment
- FIG. 5 is a diagrammatic side elevational view of the second embodiment
- FIG. 6 is a diagrammatic side elevational view of a third embodiment
- FIG. 7 is a diagrammatic top plan view of said third embodiment.
- This invention includes a method for the patterned solidification, desolidification, or modification of the index of refraction of a photo reactive material by non-degenerate two-photon absorption thereby providing rapid fabrication of three-dimensional micro-structures directly from computer models.
- the steps of the novel method include:
- a medium capable of selective solidification, desolidification, or refractive index modification via non-degenerate two-photon absorption into a container having at least one optically transparent window so that the medium within the container is accessible by laser light.
- the entire container may be made of an optically transparent material;
- Aiming the femtosecond patterned light and the picosecond sheet of light so that they intersect one another orthogonally with the two focal planes overlapping More particularly, directing picosecond pulses in a thin, flat sheet so that said picosecond pulses intersect with the femtosecond pulses, such that the thin, flat sheet of picosecond pulses intersects the source light perpendicular to the projected source from the array of pixel elements so that select regions of the photoreactive material are cured at the intersection;
- the feedback could alter the conveyor speed, control the laser repetition rate, the light path length, or the controllable pixel array.
- a finely tuned system may not require feedback;
- the array of controllable pixel elements may include a spatial light modulator and the spatial light modulator may include a plurality of mirrored surfaces each independently pivotable from a first to a second position or state allowing directional control of the area of light reflecting from each mirror.
- the spatial light modulator is controlled by digital electronics that modify each mirror state by loading a binary array of data. Each bit of data in the binary image array determines the directional pivot of the mirror thus providing spatially patterned projection of laser pulses.
- the binary array of mirror state data is provided by two-dimensional slice plane image data that is programmatically extracted from a three-dimensional computer model.
- the two- dimensional slice plane data extracted from the computer model is in some cases an exact two-dimensional cross-section replica of the desired fabrication geometry and in other cases the extracted slice plane data is processed in such a way as to use the spatial light modulator as a digital programmable holographic grating capable of projecting a holographic image into the medium.
- the illuminating pulsed laser light of the spatial light modulator is a femtosecond pulsed laser source.
- An optical system couples with the spatial light modulator to form a laser illuminated projector that has an aspheric beam shaping condenser lens placed prior to and directed onto the spatial light modulator, a micromirror array spatial light modulator, and a reducing imager lens placed post spatial light modulator and focused to intersect sheet of light.
- This invention is not limited to a micromirror array spatial light modulator. There are many types of spatial light modulators and all of them are within the scope of this invention.
- the aspheric condenser lens redistributes the Gaussian energy distribution of the femtosecond laser light to form a more even energy distribution across the spatial light modulator and thus across the projected focal plane, and the projected image is directed into a region that will allow intersection with the picosecond light sheet and allow the medium and windowed container/cuvette to pass through the intersection region.
- the optical imager lens can be used to expand or reduce the total area of the projected image thus decreasing or increasing the build resolution respectively.
- the sheet of light optical system is capable of creating a thin sheet of pulsed radiance energy from the picosecond source using an aspheric beam- shaping cylindrical lens set placed between the picosecond laser source and the beam intersection volume or "fabrication plane.”
- the aspheric beam-shaping cylindrical lens set redistributes the picosecond laser light Gaussian energy distribution to form a more even energy distribution across the thin light sheet.
- the thin sheet of pulsed energy is directed into the vat perpendicular to the focal plane of the femtosecond projected image.
- the sheet of light optical system can be designed from a diffractive optical element that forms a sheet of light that intersects the focal volume of the projected source.
- the photoreactive material includes a highly efficient two-photon photoreactive initiator material combined with compatible fast reacting monomers such as acrylates, vinyl ethers, epoxies, biodegradable hydrogels, elastomers, or polymer-derived-ceramics.
- the medium may be a liquid resin that is solidified upon exposure to the intersecting beams thus allowing microstructure fabrication. It may also be a solid that is desolidified upon exposure to the intersecting beams thus allow microstructure fabrication. It may also be a material with the capability of altering the index of refraction thus enabling the fabrication of waveguides.
- the novel POOF process incorporates a spatial light modulator such as Texas Instrument's digital light processor (DLP. TM.) projection technology into a two-photon fabrication process. It requires a non-degenerate approach to the TPIP process due to the geometry of the projected light entering the bulk volume of the polymer.
- the POOF process further requires that the projection system be illuminated by a high peak-power, femtosecond, pulsed, laser source operating at a specific wavelength .lamda..sub.l which projects a series two dimensional slices of a three dimensional computer model.
- the pulsed image is projected into the bulk fabrication volume of photopolymer material through a reducing imager lens of approximately 1.1 :1 or greater reduction
- Non-degenerate two-photon scheme also enables utilization of lower numerical apertures in a two-photon polymerization process. This versatility is inherent in the non-degenerate two-photon absorption process because two-photon absorption will only occur in the volume of the pulses intersection where the combined irradiance of each beam plays a contribution to meeting the quadratic irradiance dependence required for TPIP.
- the projected image is directed into a vat or cuvette at an angle less than the critical angle of the a transparent vat/cuvette wall and the photopolymer material.
- This critically important aspect of the POOF configuration meets five crucial conditions during the fabrication of the desired object: A) a static focal plane, B) substantially static optical components in the optical path (excluding minute vat vibration), C) constant velocity translation in a single axis, D) substantially turbulence free photopolymer build volume, and E) an array of up to 4.1 million fabricated voxels digitally projected via a high performance spatial light modulator such as the extremely high performance Texas Instrument's Digital Micromirror Device (DMD).
- a high performance spatial light modulator such as the extremely high performance Texas Instrument's Digital Micromirror Device (DMD).
- the basic POOF system includes an enclosed transparent vat containing a two-photon photoinitiator monomer concentration that is meets the criteria of one-photon optical transparency of each of the POOF process's dual synchronized lasers.
- the vat is mounted to a low vibration translation system that translates the vat at a constant velocity through the fabrication plane where the pulsed image and sheet of light intersect.
- the DLP.TM. projection system projects a series of high peak power femtosecond pulsed cross-sectional CAD model slice image at a refresh rate defined by the velocity of the translation system and the polymerization rate of the photoreactive material.
- a picosecond pulsed thin sheet of light is synchronized to intersect the projected pulsed image in the focal plane. Because of numerical apertures of the light entering the photopolymer volume, the wavelength of light, and the irradiance of the pulsed laser light neither single beam alone can induce immediate TPIP.
- a liquid volume goes in and "POOF," the three-dimensional part is produced.
- each fabrication slice is determined by the non-degenerate TPIP dynamics of the spatial thickness of the sheet of light interacting with the temporal length of the femtosecond projected pixel in the physical intersection geometry and also by any diffusion of the light as photopolymerization occurs and the termination coefficient of the polymer chain during the reaction.
- the POOF process laser systems and optical systems are chosen by meeting the criteria that TPIP occurs only in the intersection volume of the laser beams. Exposing the photopolymer material to either the projected femtosecond pulsed image of wavelength .lamda..sub.l or the picosecond pulsed sheet of light of wavelength .lamda..sub.2 alone will not induce immediate TPIP. Only where the beam operating at .lamda..sub.l intersects with a second beam operating at .lamda..sub.2, where .lamda..sub.l and .lamda..sub.2 are of the appropriate combined energies, will the energies sum to induce immediate TPIP.
- the picosecond pulse sheet thickness and collimation is constrained to an irradiance limitation below the irradiance induced damage threshold of the photopolymer materials.
- the optimal theoretical light delivery system working in conjunction with the optimal chemical and hardware configuration facilitates a process capable of high volume production of polymer-based micro-structures with the unprecedented combination of three-dimensional complexity, feature size resolution, and volume throughput.
- Several conceptual TPIP projection POOF design configurations for mass production are depicted in the drawings that include designs for rapid prototyping or rapid manufacturing of polymer or polymer-derived-ceramic microstructures and a design for high resolution rapid prototyping of micro-feature build resolution of macrostructures.
- an optional hardware addition to the overall system is realized by incorporating a magnet that creates a thin, sheet-like, magnetic field across the pulsed light intersection region also called the fabrication region. It is known that photopolymers located in a moderate magnetic field can have an increase in the overall photoefficiency of the photopolymerization process. However, no prior art in the field of stereolithography or TPIP configurations has incorporated a thin magnetic field into the focal region of the incoming light. Increasing the overall photoefficiency of the process results in either lower pulse power requirements to achieve TPIP or an increase in the overall fabrication throughput of the process.
- FIGS. 1-3 depict a typical set-up, which is denoted as a whole by the reference numeral 10.
- Conveyor system 12 carries container 14 through the fabrication region. As mentioned above, at least part of container 14 is optically transparent.
- the depicted conveyor system includes a sprocketed belt 16 that makes a continuous path of travel around sprocket pulleys 18a, 18b that are longitudinally spaced apart from one another and which are respectively supported by vibration isolation base members 19a, 19b having support legs 20a, 20b.
- Optically flat glass tracks 22 provide a guided path for container 14 through the fabrication region is itself supported by base members 21 a, 21 b and support legs 23a, 23b.
- the art of machine design includes numerous equivalent structures for carrying a container along a predetermined path of travel and all of such equivalent structures are within the scope of this invention.
- the femtosecond pulsed laser is denoted 24 and the picosecond pulsed laser is denoted 26.
- the spatial light modulation (SLM) projection system associated with femtosecond pulsed laser 24 is denoted 28 and the femtosecond pulsed laser 24 illuminated projection optics is denoted 30.
- SLM spatial light modulation
- the femtosecond pulsed laser images projected by SLM projection system 28 are denoted 32. These images are also referred to as the image source light.
- the flat sheet of picosecond pulsed laser light is denoted 34 is illuminated by the picosecond pulsed laser denoted 26 and formed by the sheet of light optics denoted 35.
- Thin magnet 38 is positioned in an inclined plane and intersects fabrication region 36.
- the structure diagrammatically depicted in FIGS. 4 and 5 differs from the structure of FIGS. 1-3 in that no magnet 38 is provided in this embodiment. In all other respects, the structure is the same as indicated by the reference numerals, which are common to FIGS. 1-5.
- FIGS. 6 and 7 A third embodiment is depicted in FIGS. 6 and 7. Most of the functional parts are the same as in the first two embodiments as indicated by the common reference numerals. However, instead of a relatively small container 14 that contains the photoreactive material, a large vat 40 contains said material. Vertical lifting platform 42 is positioned inside said large vat and suitable means are provided for elevating said platform 42 in increments that correspond to the vertical height of the fabrication region 36 as the inventive method is performed.
- Vat 42 is supported by a dual axis translation system that includes rigid arms 44, 46 disposed at a right angle relative to one another at the base of vat 42, externally of said vat. Translation of vat 42 along an x-axis is controlled by arm 44, along a y-axis by arm 46, and along a z-axis by vertical lifting platform 42. The z-axis is perpendicular to the plane of the paper in FIG. 7. In this way the photoreactive material is moved through fabrication region 36 as vat 40 is translated along said axes under the control of a computer.
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