Toner-print removal from paper by long and ultrashort pulsed lasers

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 468, Issue 2144, 2012, Pages 2272-2293

  Leal Ayala, David Ricardo ^a   Allwood, J M ^a   Schmidt, M ^b   Alexeev, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Laser ablation; Material efficiency; Paper recycling; Reduction of paper demand; Toner print

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASER ABLATION; MODELS; PULSED LASERS; RECYCLING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET LASERS;

COLOUR SPACES; MATERIAL EFFICIENCY; NANOSECOND PULSE; OPERATING WINDOWS; PAPER DEMAND; PAPER PRODUCTION; PAPER RECYCLING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SET-UPS; SPECTROSCOPY MEASUREMENTS; THEORETICAL MODELS; TONER PRINT; TONER REMOVAL; ULTRA-FAST; ULTRASHORT-PULSED LASER;

PAPER;

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASERS; MODELS; PAPER; RECYCLING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84864579584     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2011.0601     Document Type: Conference Paper

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