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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.

Potomac Automates with new micro CNC Machine to Exponentially Accelerate Customer Experience 3D Printing
Potomac PhotonicsMarch 20, 2019

Potomac Automates with new micro CNC Machine to Exponentially Accelerate Customer Experience

Speed is at the center of today’s world, especially as biotech, medical device, microelectronics and consumer products companies vie to get new…

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Potomac Adds SU8 Photolithography to Microfabrication Toolbox 3D Printing
Potomac PhotonicsFebruary 10, 2019

Potomac Adds SU8 Photolithography to Microfabrication Toolbox

Since IBM’s development in 1989 of SU-8 photoresist for use as a key component for high-resolution microelectronics manufacturing, other industries have adopted…

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Combining 3D Printing and Laser Micromachining  in Microfluidic Device for Vascular Research 3D Printing
Potomac PhotonicsFebruary 6, 2019

Combining 3D Printing and Laser Micromachining in Microfluidic Device for Vascular Research

Perhaps the greatest benefit to being a graduate student is the opportunity to work with faculty who are conducting innovative research at…

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2018: A Year of Advanced Manufacturing Innovation  at Potomac Photonics 3D Printing
Potomac PhotonicsJanuary 4, 2019

2018: A Year of Advanced Manufacturing Innovation at Potomac Photonics

2018 has proven to be yet another great year to be working in manufacturing, especially building micro devices for biotech, microfluidics, cancer…

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Rapid Prototyping Micro Holes in Glass Allows UC Berkeley Researchers to Study Neural Processes in the Brain 3D Printing
Potomac PhotonicsDecember 3, 2018

Rapid Prototyping Micro Holes in Glass Allows UC Berkeley Researchers to Study Neural Processes in the Brain

  All complex systems are made of fundamental building blocks that underpin basic functions, processes and connections.  The brain’s seemingly infinite ability…

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Microfluidics: Driving Diverse Applications  In A Wide Variety of Industries 3D Printing
Potomac PhotonicsSeptember 24, 2018

Microfluidics: Driving Diverse Applications In A Wide Variety of Industries

Potomac has been at the forefront of microfluidics device manufacturing and most of our customers’ early applications have been strongly centered on…

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How Industry 4.0 Is Revolutionizing Advanced Manufacturing 3D Printing
Potomac PhotonicsAugust 6, 2018

How Industry 4.0 Is Revolutionizing Advanced Manufacturing

For the past few decades, we’ve been living in the Third Industrial Revolution where advanced manufacturing meant production utilizing computers and automation. …

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Celebrating American Innovation  on the Fourth of July 3D Printing
Potomac PhotonicsJuly 2, 2018

Celebrating American Innovation on the Fourth of July

Back in 1776, colonial America could not survive without the ingenuity of its people to devise the things needed for everyday life. …

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Micro Hole Drilling and Bonding for  Microfluidic Device Manufacturing 3D Printing
Potomac PhotonicsJune 28, 2018

Micro Hole Drilling and Bonding for Microfluidic Device Manufacturing

In the last few years, microfluidics has come into its own as a process and also a micro-manufacturing technology.  The methodology is…

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