Abstract:Direct digital manufacturing techniques such as laser ablation are proposed for the fabrication of lower cost, miniaturized, and lightweight integrated assemblies with high performance requirements. This paper investigates the laser ablation of a Ti/Cu/Pt/Au thin-film metal stack on fired low temperature cofired ceramic (LTCC) surfaces using a 355-nm Nd:YAG diode-pumped laser ablation system. It further investigates laser ablation applications using unfired, or “green,” LTCC materials in the following ways: (1… Show more
“…The repetition rates above tens of MHz grant that most of the residual heat remains in the interaction volume of the next pulse in a burst at this laser beam spot size. At the same time those laser beam diameters are in line with current industry leading devices used for material processing [19]. Our research has focused on pushing the achievable feature sizes an order of magnitude smaller while preserving short processing times of larger surface areas.…”
“…The repetition rates above tens of MHz grant that most of the residual heat remains in the interaction volume of the next pulse in a burst at this laser beam spot size. At the same time those laser beam diameters are in line with current industry leading devices used for material processing [19]. Our research has focused on pushing the achievable feature sizes an order of magnitude smaller while preserving short processing times of larger surface areas.…”
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