Laser-effected darkening in TPEs with TiO2 additives

Optics and Lasers in Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 791-800

  Zheng, Hongyu ^a   Lim, Gnian Cher ^a  

^a SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Laser darkening; Laser effected colour change marking; Laser sensitive additives

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; CARBON; CERAMIC MATERIALS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; MELTING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS; VAPORIZATION;

LASER DARKENING; LASER MARKS; POLYMER MATRIX;

THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS;

EID: 0347415762     PISSN: 01438166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0143-8166(03)00032-0     Document Type: Article

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