Sunday, August 30, 2009

Laser Micro-cutting


Laser precision cutting is an attractive micromachining technique for most materials. Features down to 1 micron wide and up to 2mm deep can be machined.
Wide variety of materials

Almost any type of material can be micro-cut. Materials which can be machined include:

* metals: stainless steel, hardened steel, copper, aluminium, brass, tungsten, titanium
* ceramics: alumina, zirconia, machinable ceramics, green ceramics, PZT, silicon nitride, tungsten carbide
* super hard materials: diamond, silicon nitride, tungsten carbide
* plastics: polyimide, PTFE, PMMA, Kapton, Vespel, Cirlex, ABS
* glasses and crystaline materials: BK7, sapphire, fused silica

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