Study of Stealth Dicing of Silicon Carbide Wafers Under Ultrafast Laser Multi‑Pulse Mode and Burst Mode

Yunpeng Ren; Xincheng Tu; Kun He; Li Cheng; Yunxia Ye; Xudong Ren; Naifei Ren

doi:10.3788/CJL230517

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