Industrial freeform generation of microtools by laser micro sintering

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 18-25

  Regenfuss, P ^a,c   Hartwig, L ^a   Klotzer S ^a   Ebert, R ^a   Brabant, Th ^b   Petsch, T ^b   Exner, H ^a  

^a Hochsch Technik Wirtsch Mittweida   (Germany)

^b 3D Micromac AG   (Germany)

^c Hochschule Mittweida   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coating processes; Lasers; Microcontrollers; Sintering

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; INJECTION MOLDING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MICROCONTROLLERS; RESEARCH; SINTERING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

COATING PROCESSES; FREEFROM GENERATION; LASER MICRO SINTERING; MICROTOOLS;

LASER BEAM EFFECTS;

EID: 13844307693     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552540510573356     Document Type: Article

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