Technology

Carbon DLS^™

Carbon Digital Light Synthesis™ (Carbon DLS™) process is a breakthrough technology that uses digital light projection, oxygen permeable optics, and programmable liquid resins to produce parts with exceptional mechanical properties, resolution, and surface finish. The Carbon DLS™ process allows engineers and designers to iterate faster, deliver projects with less risk, and radically reimagine their products by introducing consolidated parts, impossible geometries, and programmable lattices.​

About CLIP ™

Carbon’s groundbreaking Continuous Liquid Interface Production™, is a photochemical process that cures liquid plastic resin into solid parts using ultraviolet light.

1. Build platform
2. Resin
3. Oxygen permeable window
4. Dead zone
5. Light engine

The Dead Zone​

The heart of the CLIP process is the “dead zone” — a thin, liquid interface of uncured resin between the window and the printing part. Light passes through the dead zone, curing the resin above it to form a solid part without curing the part onto the window. ​

Resin flows beneath the curing part as the print progresses, maintaining the “continuous liquid interface” that powers CLIP and avoiding the slow and forceful peeling process that is inherent to many other resin-based printers.