Throwback Thursday: The Invention of The Laser Scalpel

Invented just over 50 years ago, the laser scalpel is used in an array of surgical procedures, across medical fields. A laser scalpel is typically either a CO2 laser or a excimer laser, depending on the surgery. For soft tissue procedures, such as removing a birthmark or teeth whitening, a CO2 laser is used. A […]

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High Density Through Glass Vias for Advanced Chip Packaging

By Ralph Delmdahl, Rainer Pätzel, Rolf Senczuk and Jan Brune Glass is a promising material from which advanced interposers for high density electrical interconnects for 2.5D and 3D chip packaging can be produced. The supply of ultra-thin glass wafers with thicknesses of 100 µm and below shows attractive cost and superior high frequency performance relative […]

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Laser Fabrication of Nanobump Arrays on Si Substrate Via Optical Near-Field Enhancement

By: X.C. Wang, H.Y. Zheng, C. W. Tan, F. Wang, H. Y. Yu, K. L. Pey Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech), Singapore School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Modern technology requires the ability of creating smaller and smaller devices. Whether it is for information storage, high definition displays or sensor arrays, […]

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