Laser Manufacturing

Learn, Network & Explore the Possibilities By Betsy Marone In its fifth year, Laser Institute of America’s Lasers for Manufacturing Event® (LME®) will continue its tradition of offering attendees a unique and comprehensive two-day look into the laser industry. Taking place at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta, GA, April 26-27, LME will serve as […]

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Micromachining of Thin CFRP with UV-PS Laser Pulses

By: Masayuki Fujita and George Okada It is well known that Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) has attractive features like high-durability, high-strength and light-weight. These features have been stimulating the CFRP to be applied for a wide variety of applications. For example, by using the CFRP as a body material of aircrafts and automobiles, higher fuel efficiency […]

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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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Femtosecond Laser 3D Micromachining for Fabricating Nanoaquariums: Exploring the Functions of Aquatic Microorganisms

By: Koji Sugioka, Yasutaka Hanada, Katsumi Midorikawa, Ikuko Shihira Ishikawa, Hiroyuki Kawano, Atsushi Miyawaki RIKEN – Advanced Science Institute, Brain Science Institute It is becoming increasingly important to observe and analyze the dynamics and functions of microorganisms both for fundamental investigations (such as elucidating the functions of biological cells) and for applications to biomicro systems […]

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ICALEO 2009 – Accepting the Challenge

Held in the Hilton located in the Walt Disney World® Resort, the 28th International Congress on Applications of Lasers and Electro-Optics (ICALEO®) once again brought together many of the best and brightest of laser and optics professionals and scientists to network and review the state-of-the-art in laser materials processing and predict where the future will […]

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