By Wilhelm Pfleging, Melanie Mangang, Yijing Zheng, Peter Smyrek and Johannes Pröll Introduction Thick film anodes and cathodes with thicknesses ranging from 20-300 µm, in state-of-the-art and future lithium-ion cells are complex multi-material systems consisting of defined material components, grain sizes, porosities and pore size distributions in the micrometer and submicrometer ranges. State-of-the-art cells with pouch […]
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High-Efficiency Laser Processing of CFRP
By Rudolf Weber and Volkher Onuseit The benefit of CFRP for lightweight construction in automotive and airplane industries is widely accepted. Impressive pictures of high-performance cars and airplanes with numerous high-tech looking carbon fiber parts are familiar to everybody. However, industrial large-volume application of CFRP requires efficient and high-quality processing. And of course, the laser […]
U.S. Strong for Industrial Laser Processing
David A. Belforte The recovery from the 2008/2009 global recession was, according to experts, going to take at least three years to reach pre-recession levels. In the United States, manufacturing companies, reacting to orders from pent-up demand and delayed 2009 buying plans, found their production taxed to meet a rapidly growing order book in 2010 […]
Design of a Microdistillation Column
By: Matti Manninen, Aarne Sundberg, Heidi Piili, Antti Salminen Lappeenranta University of Technology, Laser Processing Research Group, Finland Aalto University, Department of Biotechnology and Chemical Technology, Finland Machine Technology Centre Turku Ltd, Finland Distillation is the predominantly used separation method in chemical engineering. The device presented in this paper is called a microdistillation column, because the […]
Lasers and Long Term Implants
Laser processing of titanium to improve performance of orthopedic and dental devices.