A collaborative Horizon 2020 project has begun this month that will develop a new method of laser surface texturing using ultrashort pulse lasers in order to produce super hydrophobic polymer and metal materials
Partners of a joint research project are looking to establish fast, high-quality laser welding processes for shipbuilding and other maritime applications
Partners of a German research project are exploring how the beams of ultrashort pulse lasers can be shaped using refractive and diffractive optical elements
A Horizon 2020 project has achieved a breakthrough using ultrafast high-power lasers that will enable the production of self-cleaning sheet metal on an industrial scale for the first time
Professor Michalis Zervas, from the Optoelectronics Research Centre, charts the rise of high-power fibre lasers and asks what next for the technology?
David Bruneel, process and modelling unit manager for R&D at Lasea, discusses the benefits of simulation in micromachining
Stephen Dyson, special operations manager at Protolabs, on how direct metal laser sintering is evolving to become an important additive manufacturing tool
Scientists have published the results of a research project which found that a laser technique enables the printing of 3D metal structures made from pure gold
The results of a three-year and approximately $3.4 million collaborative research project have concluded that it is now possible to integrate additive manufacturing (AM) into automotive mass production
A new €1.99 million EU-funded research project is aiming to produce complete laser systems using 3D printing
