Diamond milling or turning for the fabrication of micro lens arrays: Comparing different diamond machining technologies

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7927, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Scheiding, Sebastian ^a,c   Yi, Allen Y ^b   Gebhardt, Andreas ^a   Loose, Roman ^a   Li, Lei ^b   Risse, Stefan ^a   Eberhardt, Ramona ^a   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a,c  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diamond turning; Diamond micro milling; Fast tool servo; Free form machining; Micro lens array; Micro optics; Mold insert; Wafer level manufacturing

Indexed keywords

DIAMOND TURNING; FAST TOOL SERVO; FREE-FORM MACHINING; MICRO LENS ARRAY; MOLD INSERT; WAFER LEVEL MANUFACTURING;

DIAMONDS; DIE CASTING INSERTS; FABRICATION; MICROLENSES; MOLDS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PRECISION ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY; TURNING;

MILLING (MACHINING);

EID: 79953677795     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.874751     Document Type: Conference Paper

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