Author Affiliations
1State Key Laboratory of Dynamic Measurement Technology, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, Shanxi, China2Inner Mongolia Power Machinery Institute, Hohhot 010010, Inner Mongolia, Chinashow less
Fig. 1. Schematic of ultraviolet micro machining system
Fig. 2. Schematics of laser machining. (a) Shock drilling; (b) rotary cutting and drilling; (c) spiral drilling
Fig. 3. SEM and 3D images of through-hole. (a) SEM image of through-hole surface; 3D images of (b) through-hole surface,
Fig. 4. SEM images of through-holes processed under different energy densities. (a) 27.68 J/cm2; (b) 29.57 J/cm2; (c) 31.12 J/cm2;
Fig. 5. Morphologies of sapphire through-holes processed under different laser repetition frequencies
Fig. 6. SEM image of drilling failure when energy density and repetition frequency of laser is 32.59 J/cm2 and 45 kHz, respectively
Fig. 7. Surface morphologies of sapphire micro through-holes processed under different laser scanning speeds
Fig. 8. Cross-section SEM images and tapering angles of sapphire micro through-holes processed under different laser scanning speeds. (a) 0.9 mm/s; (b) 0.7 mm/s; (c) 0.5 mm/s; (d) 0.3 mm/s; (e) 0.1 mm/s; (f) through-hole tapering angle versus laser scanning speed
Fig. 9. Morphology image of sapphire through-hole under optimal parameter conditions. (a) SEM amplification image of through-hole edge; (b) three-dimensional image of through-hole morphology
Laser parameter | Value |
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Wavelength | 355 nm | Pulse width | 10-25 ns | Frequency | 20-100 kHz | Power | 0-300 μJ | Spot mode | TEM00(quality factor M2<1.3) |
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Table 1. Main technical parameters of ultraviolet laser
Laser pulse width /ns | Laser repetition frequency /kHz |
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11 | 30 | 13 | 40 | 15 | 50 | 17 | 60 | 19 | 70 |
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Table 2. Relationship between laser pulse width and repetition frequency
d /μm | fREP /kHz | vs /(mm·s-1) | η /% |
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30 | 30 | 0.1 | 99.99 | 30 | 30 | 0.3 | 99.97 | 30 | 30 | 0.5 | 99.94 | 30 | 30 | 0.7 | 99.92 | 30 | 30 | 0.9 | 99.90 |
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Table 3. Relationship between laser pulse overlap rate and scanning speed
Parameter | Present work | Ref.[23] | Ref.[14] | Ref.[15] |
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Material | Monocrystalline sapphire(c-cut) | Monocrystalline sapphire (c-cut) | Monocrystalline sapphire(c-cut) | Monocrystalline sapphire(c-cut) | Beam style | Gaussian | Bessel | Gaussian | Gaussian | Pulse duration | Nanosecond (11-19 ns) | Picosecond(6 ps) | Picosecond(0.8 ps) | Femtosecond (300-500 fs) | Sample thickness | 500 μm | 430 μm | 300 μm | 430 μm | Hole diameter | ~200 μm | ~100 μm | ~1 mm | ~400 μm | Machining technique | Up-bottom ablation with spiraling | Trepanning with polyimide tape | Bottom-up ablation with spiraling | Bottom-up ablation with spiraling | Tapering angle | 2° | <5° | <3° | <2°-<5° | Z-axis translation | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
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Table 4. Comparisons of sapphire through-holes processed by ultraviolet nanosecond laser with results in literatures