By Isamu Miyamoto, Yasuhiro Okamoto, Kristian Cvecek, Michael Schmidt, Henry Helvajian While glass is widely used in different industrial field due to its excellent physical and chemical properties, there exist no reliable joining procedures of glass at the moment. We have developed a novel fusion welding procedure of glass that can weld glass even with […]
Month: September 2013
Local Laser Joining of Glass and Silicon
By Assi Hansen, Isamu Miyamoto, Tiina Amberla, Yasuhiro Okamoto One of the most employed material combinations in microtechnology is the glass-silicon pair. Since the huge growth of the microelectromechanical devices, sensors and micro-fluidic devices, bonding of this couple has become more and more critical issue. Many of these glass-silicon bonding processes, for example anodic bonding, […]
A Technical and Commercial Comparison of Fiber Laser and CO2 Laser Cutting
By John Powell, Alexander Kaplan Since the advent of commercial fiber and disk laser cutting machines, there has been a lot of controversy about the performance of these devices – particularly in comparison to their more established CO2 counterparts. In the early days, the sales staff promoting fiber technology would often declare that the new […]
NAMII, CIMP-3D Tours Kick off LIA Industry Watch Feature
When President Barack Obama took a moment in his State of the Union address earlier this year to mention the converted warehouse in Youngstown, Ohio, that is home to the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, he made Kevin Collier’s life a little more hectic. But Collier, factory manager of NAMII, doesn’t seem to mind. During […]
Protect Your Growth and Profits!
The New Standard for Manufacturing Can Help Ensure that Your Customers and Employees Stay Safe ORLANDO, FL, September 5, 2013 – Media reports these days are filled with stories of a coming revolution in manufacturing, particularly through additive processes. With lasers prevalent in the output of high-value components in many industries, the Laser Institute of America unveils […]