Pulse and DC electropolishing of stainless steel for stents and other devices

Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 314-317

  Bhuyan, Anshuman ^a   Gregory, Brandon ^a   Lei, Howard ^a   Seow, Yuen Yee ^a   Gianchandani, Yogesh B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; STAINLESS STEEL; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

CARDIAC STENTING; POLISHING DURATION; PULSED CURRENT; SURFACE DEFECTS;

ELECTROLYTIC POLISHING;

EID: 33847323555     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2005.1597699     Document Type: Conference Paper

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