Advantages offered by high average power picosecond lasers

C. Moorhouse

doi:10.1117/12.872391

21 February 2011 Advantages offered by high average power picosecond lasers

C. Moorhouse

Proceedings Volume 7920, Laser Applications in Microelectronic and Optoelectronic Manufacturing (LAMOM) XVI; 79200Y (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.872391
Event: SPIE LASE, 2011, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

As electronic devices shrink in size to reduce material costs, device size and weight, thinner material thicknesses are also utilized. Feature sizes are also decreasing, which is pushing manufacturers towards single step laser direct write process as an attractive alternative to conventional, multiple step photolithography processes by eliminating process steps and the cost of chemicals. The fragile nature of these thin materials makes them difficult to machine either mechanically or with conventional nanosecond pulsewidth, Diode Pumped Solids State (DPSS) lasers. Picosecond laser pulses can cut materials with reduced damage regions and selectively remove thin films due to the reduced thermal effects of the shorter pulsewidth. Also, the high repetition rate allows high speed processing for industrial applications. Selective removal of thin films for OLED patterning, silicon solar cells and flat panel displays is discussed, as well as laser cutting of transparent materials with low melting point such as Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET). For many of these thin film applications, where low pulse energy and high repetition rate are required, throughput can be increased by the use of a novel technique to using multiple beams from a single laser source is outlined.

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C. Moorhouse "Advantages offered by high average power picosecond lasers", Proc. SPIE 7920, Laser Applications in Microelectronic and Optoelectronic Manufacturing (LAMOM) XVI, 79200Y (21 February 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.872391

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