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€4 million DyHoLIT project (Horizon Europe Pathfinder)

Professor Edik Rafailov (AIPT) has been awarded funding through the prestigious Horizon Europe Pathfinder scheme as part of the €4 million DyHoLIT project, with €650,000 allocated to the Aston team. Coordinated by SWHL GmbH, DyHoLIT aims to transform high-resolution manufacturing through Sub-Wavelength Dynamic Holographic Lithography - a programmable, maskless approach targeting optical resolutions approaching λ/4. By combining advanced micromirror arrays, holographic modulation and new diffraction-modelling algorithms, the project will enable flexible, full-field patterning without immersion optics. The technology will be validated through 3D scaffold fabrication for skin and neural tissue models and shorter-wavelength experiments supporting future semiconductor applications. DyHoLIT has the potential to make advanced lithography more accessible and open new opportunities in biofabrication and semiconductor manufacturing.

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