Notes from the micron scale
Company news, material deep-dives, and case studies from the Potomac Photonics team — precision micromanufacturing, one micron at a time.
3D Printing High Precision Laser Manufacturing in Kapton Helps Stanford Understand Heart Disease
In the United States heart disease is the leading cause of death, killing over 600,000 people per year according to the Centers…
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3D Printing Congratulations to Prismatix and Technion on Discovery Award Grant to Further Innovation in Antibiotic Susceptibility Detection
Developing new products in the 21st century requires faster development of prototypes in order to optimize designs and speed time to market. …
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3D Printing Potomac Proving Ground Design Testing Service Speeds Product Time to Market
Rapid prototyping is a proven method to move a product from concept to production that has been in engineering practice for decades. …
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3D Printing Laser Micromachining Thin Glass for Biotech Applications
Potomac has developed unique laser processing capabilities, especially of thin glass, that has special application for bioscience research. Two recent projects reported…
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3D Printing Potomac Reports on Digital Fabrication for Advanced Manufacturing Internship Program at RAPID 2017
Digital Fabrication is uniquely suited to rapid prototyping applications. Designs created in a CAD file can be quickly brought to life via…
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3D Printing Potomac’s Manufacturing Customer Service Saves the Day for Capital One’s SXSW Innovation
Banking and the financial services industries are not usually thought of as innovative. But that is not the case at Capital One. …
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3D Printing Potomac Uses Advanced Manufacturing to Change the World
For the past several years Potomac has participated in DigiFabCon, a digital fabrication conference that highlights how new digital fabrication tools like…
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3D Printing Innovation Continues at Potomac and in the Laser Industry to Foster Advanced Manufacturing
Potomac was honored when SPIE, a premier laser and photonics technical society, invited us to present the Prism Award recently at Photonics…
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3D Printing The Bright Future of Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing
Bacterial infections are becoming much more difficult to treat as they become more resistant to antibiotics. In fact, it is predicted that…
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