Conventional separation methods for glass by using hard metal and diamond told have been widely used for many different applications, as todays market trends require more clean and precise processing, laser separation succeeded to grow up during the last years and became a state of the art technique for several applications in different industries. For example most of the displays of new mobile phone generations are going to be cut by laser. Also there is a clear trend that glass slides used for bio applications have pure laser cut edges (figure 1)
Origin
Germany
Journal Title
Verre Dec 05 39-41
Sector
Flat glass
Class
F 2165b