Nanoscribe sells its 400th system and sees growing demand for Quantum X in industry

Nanoscribe has reached a round-number milestone in its 18th year of operation: the company reports the sale of its 400th system across the Photonic Professional and Quantum X platforms and expects good business figures for the current year. What stands out is the rising share of industrial customers, particularly from optical manufacturing and photonics packaging, where reproducible process chains are more important than individual demonstrators.

From a technological standpoint, Nanoscribe’s portfolio is based on two-photon polymerization (2PP), i.e., 3D microprinting using two-photon polymerization. Since its founding in 2007, the company has further developed the method toward greater automation, throughput, and ease of use. Proprietary extensions include 2GL for grayscale structures as well as Aligned 2-Photon Lithography (A2PL) for aligned processes in more complex setups. In this way, Nanoscribe is targeting closer-to-series production without giving up the typical strengths of the process in micro- and nanostructures.

According to the company, in 2025 every third system delivered already goes to industrial customers. Drivers include applications in photonics packaging, such as aligned 3D microstructures at chip edges, fibers, fiber arrays, or wafers, for example as coupler interfaces. For such components, optical surface quality and precise positioning are crucial; Nanoscribe cites alignment accuracies down to 100 nanometers as a technical reference point for the Quantum X systems.

“Reaching 400 systems sold is more than a numerical milestone, it reflects the trust our customers place in Nanoscribe as a long-term technology partner,” says Martin Hermatschweiler, CEO and co-founder of Nanoscribe. “We are seeing strong and growing interest from both application-oriented research and industry. This underscores a clear market pull for our products, especially in optics manufacturing and photonics packaging. With our turnkey process-line solutions, we are enabling customers to move from a few prototypes to scalable production.”

In parallel, Nanoscribe continues to invest heavily in development; according to the company, more than 35 percent of the workforce works in R&D. Integration into the Lab14 Group is also intended to support the focus on industrial production environments.