Title :
Experiments on laser bending of brittle materials
Author :
Wu, Dongjiang ; Zhang, Qiang ; Guo, Dongming
Author_Institution :
Key Lab. for Precision & Non-traditional Machining Technol. of Minist. of Educ., Dalian Univ. of Technol., Dalian, China
Abstract :
Experiments on Nd:YAG pulsed laser and CO2 CW-laser bending of single crystal silicon, borosilicate glass and Al2O3 ceramic were carried out and the effects of processing parameters on bending angels were discussed.
Keywords :
aluminium compounds; borosilicate glasses; brittleness; ceramics; gas lasers; neodymium; solid lasers; Al2O3; YAG:Nd; borosilicate glass; brittle materials; carbon dioxide CW laser; ceramics; laser bending; pulsed laser; single crystal silicon; Ceramics; Crystalline materials; Glass; Optical materials; Optical pulses; Optical surface waves; Silicon; Space vector pulse width modulation; Surface emitting lasers; Tensile stress; brittle material; laser bending; processing parameters;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers & Electro Optics & The Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009. CLEO/PACIFIC RIM '09. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3829-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3830-3
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2009.5292240
