Laser Materials Processing
The craft thread: putting heat exactly where the joint is and nowhere else. It opens in 2000 with a laser fired through the eye of a bonding tool to weld a ribbon without vibration, and matures into kinetically-limited diffusion bonds — sapphire fused to titanium across an interface thinner than 1000 nanometers, co-invented with Corning. These techniques are the enabling hands behind the packaging cathedral. T3 · interpretation
Deep dive: laser craft
11 granted patents in this theme
| Granted | Patent |
|---|---|
| 2002 | Apparatus and method for laser welding of ribbons US6501043B1 · sole inventor |
| 2004 | Apparatus and method for laser welding of ribbons US6717100B2 · sole inventor |
| 2011 | Laser bonding tool with improved bonding accuracy US7872208B2 |
| 2014 | Techniques for bonding substrates using an intermediate layer US8796109B2 |
| 2015 | Laser assisted direct bonding US9171721B2 |
| 2018 | Kinetically limited nano-scale diffusion bond structures and methods US10124559B2 |
| 2021 | Kinetically limited nano-scale diffusion bond structures and methods US10981355B2 |
| 2023 | Surface texturing using energy pulses US11548092B2 |
| 2024 | Surface texturing using energy pulses US11969821B2 |
| 2024 | Laser cutting system US11999014B2 |
| 2025 | Kinetically limited nano-scale diffusion bond structures and methods US12454117B2 |