What makes a good construction material? There are many requirements, but one is the ability to efficiently connect different parts. Steel is almost the perfect example: you can join steel with ...

In theory, ceramics are great materials for encasing electronics. They’re tough, they insulate against electricity, protect against heat, and in the case of implants in the body, they’re biocompatible ...

Smartphones that don’t scratch or shatter. Metal-free pacemakers. Electronics for space and other harsh environments. These could all be made possible thanks to a new ceramic welding technology ...

A fabricator that needs to weld thick plate in as few passes as possible often will turn to submerged arc welding (SAW), a ...

Cobot laser welding at THG goes back several FABTECHs, during a dinner conversation between company representatives and a ...

No cracks: the ceramic welding system in action. (Courtesy: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering) A low-power pulsed laser has been used to weld ceramic materials together in ...

Adaptive laser beam shaping with a deformable mirror enables efficient energy and material usage in laser welding and ...

Engineers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) believe they have made an important breakthrough for manufacturing ceramic materials, showing for the first time that certain types can be ...

Ultrafast pulsed laser welding has been used to join ceramics, an advance that could lead to pacemakers with no metal parts and electronics for space and other harsh environments. Described in Science ...

Non-contact laser welding offers several advantages when it comes to joining one plastic part to another. It works on the principle of partial transmission which lets a laser’s light travel through ...