Green light for green mobility
25 September 2020
Trumpf’s David Harvilla, Stefanie Bisch and Sebastian Zaske discuss why green lasers represent the perfect tool for welding e-mobility components made of copper
Technology
For a better world: OCT unlocks real-time quality control during oscillation welding
25 September 2020
Nataliya Deyneka-Dupriez and Alexander Denkl, of Lessmüller Lasertechnik, describe how OCT can be used to perform online process monitoring when using an oscillating laser beam to weld e-mobility components
The recent emergence of blue laser processing shows promise for copper processing applications in e-mobility. (Image: Nuburu)
One wavelength, two approaches
25 September 2020
Over the summer laser users learned how two types of blue diode laser are dramatically improving copper welding for fabricating e-mobility components
The new Peregrine software being used to monitor and analyse a component during printing. (Image: Luke Scime/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy)
New AI software to offer real-time 3D printing quality assessment
26 August 2020
The new AI software identifies and controls surface-visible defects by using a convolutional neural network to perform high speed image analysis
A multi-beam module was used to increase the processing speeds of ultrafast lasers for helical cutting. (Image: Fraunhofer ILT).
Researchers use ultrafast lasers to optimise plug connector production
13 August 2020
The new process can be used to cut metal strips as an alternative way to produce plug connectors for vehicles
The new panel pulls a thin layer of water out of the reservoir directly onto the solar absorber surface for heating and evaporation.
Femtosecond pulses etch hydrophilic surfaces for solar-based water purification
24 July 2020
The surfaces could be used to provide clean drinking water in developing countries
A mechanically stable, optically parametric oscillator. (Image: Fraunhofer ILT)
Highly efficient laser bars developed for materials processing
24 July 2020
When operated at 300W, the bars achieve an efficiency of about 70 per cent in the wavelengths of 1,000 and 1,020nm
Large-area laser processing for aerospace
15 June 2020
Anibal Di Luch, of TWI, reports on the development of a robotic platform for the laser processing of large-scale, high-end structures for aircraft
AI-based quality monitoring of auto-body weld joints in real time
9 June 2020
Christian Knaak and Peter Abels, of Fraunhofer ILT, explain how imaging and machine learning can be used to identify weld imperfections with high accuracy
Lantek develops collision avoidance algorithm for laser cutting
22 May 2020
The Intelligent Collision Avoidance algorithm combines several measures to avoid collisions between the cutting head and the cut pieces
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