Month: October 2009

Excimer Ablation of Soft Polymers

Rob Courses, Excimer, Lasers, Nanosecond µMachining, Uncategorized, µMachining

Dr. Charles Rohde and Dr. Bryon Wright are investigating the processing abilities of the PF excimer micro-machining system for ablating soft polymer films. Shown below are the results of a 1 cm² array of hexagonal close-packed (hcp) squares cut into a photosensitive epoxy.


Hexagonal close-packed array of 10µm x 10 µm squares, ablated in photosensitive epoxy.
10x image of an hcp array of 10µm x 10 µm squares, ablated in photosensitive epoxy.


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60x image of hcp array of 10µm x 10 µm squares, ablated in photosensitive epoxy.