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Mar/Apr 2012  
μTube: Lasers
Micromanufacturing lab tour at Northwestern Univ.

During the 7th International Conference on MicroManufacturing in March, conference co-chairs Jian Cao and Kornel Ehmann, along with a few of their students, provided an overview of their research and work stations at the university's micromanufacturing lab.

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Racecar sets world speed record

Small Car at Vienna thumbA 285µm-long racecar has been fabricated in record time via ultrahigh-precision 3-D printing at Vienna University of Technology.

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Laser cutting, bending microscale foil chair

Check out this cool video of thermal laser forming performed at the Penn State University’s Applied Research Laboratory.

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LaserStar demos welding repair for mold

LaserStarOct. 31, 2011—LaserStar Technologies, Riverside, R.I., recently demonstrated a microweld using the company's 7700 Series laser system with Universal Jig, which is said to be ideal for a wide range of unique and custom integration applications for metal joining, complex assembly and repair.

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Researchers create microdroplet 3-D laser system

Dec. 13, 2010—Slovenia researchers recently demonstrated full 3-D tunable lasing in laser dye-doped cholesteric liquid-crystal (CLC) microdroplets from 15µm to 50µm in diameter—a first, according to an article in the Dec. 10 issue of Optics Express, an international online journal of The Optical Society.

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Laser vs. match

Oct. 8, 2010—In the video below, Raydiance Inc.'s ultrafast Smart Light laser ablates a kitchen match—without lighting it. The Smart Light is suited for medical device manufacturing, medical therapies, biosciences, industrial laser processing and defense markets.

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Laser marks the spot

Sept. 27, 2010—Control Micro Systems, which sells laser systems for marking and other applications, earlier this year posted a video to YouTube demonstrating its desktop laser marking ability. The Winter Park, Fla., company filmed its desktop laser marking 2-D codes into the slots on the head of a small screw.

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