Speed in 3D printing hasn’t been super important to everyone. Certainly, users value speed. But some value quality even more highly, and if gaining quality means giving up speed, then so be it.

The optimized printing approach could enable super-resolution 3D direct laser writing (DLW) of microlenses, photonics crystals, micro-optical devices, metamaterials and more.

A team of engineers at MIT are now tackling the speed issue ... If it only takes one-tenth as long to test a new design, 3D printing could be far less annoying. This system doesn't require ...