According to a report from Sandia National Laboratories.

According to a report from Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, an alternative course for fabricating microscopic parts will help acquire microtechnology into the marketplace. Interestingly, the modern technique, called LIGA, grew revealed of a need to create small parts for defense applications.
LIGA is a technique to create a mold forward a micron scale. It uses the mold to mass-produce tiny, 3D mode of buildings in a variety of materials including metals, polymer and ceramics. The name derives from the German acronym for a three-stage production proces
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