Effect of Fluence and Pulse Overlapping on Fabrication of Microchannels in PMMA/PDMS Via UV Laser Micromachining: Modeling and Experimentation

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 890-901

  Criales, Luis E ^a   Orozco, Pedro F ^b   Medrano, Alexis ^b   Rodŕguez, Ciro A ^b   Özel, Tugrul ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING   (United States)

^b SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Fluence; Laser; Microfluidics; Micromachining; PDMS; PMMA; Pulse overlapping

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; LASERS; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROMACHINING; NEODYMIUM LASERS; POLYMERS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; PULSED LASERS; SILICONES;

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FLUENCES; PDMS; PMMA; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE POLYMERS; PULSE OVERLAPPING; SOLID STATE ND:YAG LASERS; TRANSPARENT PROPERTIES;

MICROCHANNELS;

EID: 84929844427     PISSN: 10426914     EISSN: 15322475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10426914.2015.1004690     Document Type: Article

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