Lasers can achieve a decisive step to greater efficiencies and lower manufacturing costs for crystalline and thin-film photovoltaics. With this goal in mind,…
After the successful performance test, on June 5, 2012, also the Final Acceptance Certificate has been signed by Baosteel. “As opposed to the conventional…
The Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH) and three industrial partners have set a goal to achieve up to 400 percent higher process speeds for deposition welding…
The use of ultra short pulsed (USP) lasers in industrial applications has been a major focus of research for several years. The focus seminar “Basics and New…
The system, which is used to provide interim processing of the laid-up composite rear spar assembly of the Airbus 350 XWB to prevent subsequent wrinkling, was…
With over 110 000 employees, BASF is the world’s largest chemical company. At its headquarters in Ludwigshafen, the company runs over 160 production…
The ability to measure gas bubbles in pipelines is vital to the manufacturing, power and petrochemical industries. In the case of harvesting petrochemicals…
The prize was awarded during the annual meeting of the Fraunhofer Society on May 8, 2012 in Stuttgart in recognition of its outstanding cross-location,…
When manufacturing products, the coating technology is a key innovation driver for almost all areas of daily life – for example, for making scratch-proof…
Metalworking plays a key role in industry. Drilling, milling, turning and grinding operations all use lubricants to prevent work pieces and tools from…
Laser systems can be used to implement highly precise and ultra-fast measuring processes. Railway measuring technology has a huge worldwide need here. One…
The results* suggest that deeper work is necessary to explore the best way of creating these films, which are used in applications ranging from high-tech…
Ultra fast, robust, stable, and high precision: these are some of the characteristics of a new laser developed by an international research team. This…
The powder gas feed is an important parameter of the overall process and plays a key role in the results achieved. Precise knowledge of the powder gas stream…
The Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT has developed a process for manufacturing optical glass components, which should be particularly suitable for…
In a paper published in the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Ali Passian and colleagues present a technique that uses a quantum cascade laser to “pump,”…