Advanced chip packaging, printed in a single exposure.

PhaseFab is developing additive manufacturing for advanced semiconductor packaging and beyond; complex, multimaterial 3D structures produced in a single step and at micrometer scale.

Holographic interference pattern PhaseFab
Holographic Volumetric Lithography

One step. Any shape.

Conventional packaging builds structures layer by layer through dozens of process steps. Our approach uses patterned light to form metal-and-polymer microstructures directly, in three dimensions, all at once.

Single-step, multimaterial

Hybrid metal–polymer resins are patterned holographically into finished 3D structures with no stacking, bonding, or repeated lithography.

Finer than a human hair

Feature resolution below 10 microns supports the dense interconnects advanced chiplet and fan-out packages demand.

Turnaround from months to days

Collapsing multistep package fabrication with >10 tools into one printing step and a simple post process shortens design-to-part cycles from months to days.

How it works

The hologram starts as a phase mask.

Every print begins with a greyscale, square-pixel phase mask. Each pixel delays light by a precise amount, and the shaped wavefront interferes into a three-dimensional hologram projected inside the resin. Where the light converges, features are fabricated.

Greyscale square-pixel phase mask Phase mask
Printed array of copper pillar contacts Printed pillar array

Where printed packaging matters

Advanced compute

Dense fan-out and chiplet packages for processors that outgrow planar interconnect.

Aerospace & defense

Rapid, low-volume fabrication of specialized packages without a full production line.

Nonplanar form factors

Curved and conformal packages that traditional flat-wafer processes cannot produce.

Rapid prototyping

Iterate on package designs in days, before committing to volume tooling.

In the news

UT Austin News · December 3, 2025 3D-printed chip packages could supercharge semiconductor manufacturing Read the article →