Proposal of optimal process parameters for polymethylmethacryl plastic adhesion using a pulsed Nd:YAG laser

Hee-Je Kim; Jin-An Jeon; Jin-Young Choi; Jeonghoon Kim; Ji-Tae Hong; Hyunwoong Seo; Dong-Gil Lee; Kyoung-Jun Lee; Min-Kyu Son

doi:10.1117/1.3204233

1 August 2009 Proposal of optimal process parameters for polymethylmethacryl plastic adhesion using a pulsed Nd:YAG laser

Hee-Je Kim, Jin-An Jeon, Jin-Young Choi, Jeonghoon Kim, Ji-Tae Hong, Hyunwoong Seo, Dong-Gil Lee, Kyoung-Jun Lee, Min-Kyu Son

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 48, Issue 8, 084301 (August 2009). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3204233

Abstract

In this study, we propose a pulsed Nd:YAG laser system that uses a sequential charge and discharge circuit to adhere polymethylmethacryl (PMMA) plastics. Two PMMA plastics adhere to each other when the red one transmits the laser beam and the black one absorbs it. The optimal adhesion depends on several process parameters, such as the charging voltage of the capacitor, the pulse rate [in pulses per second (pps)], the velocity of the target, and the laser beam diameter. We try to optimize the adhesion process parameters from trial-and-error experiments. It has proposed that the optimal adhesion process parameters are a charging voltage of 650 V, a pulse rate of 11 pps, a target velocity of 4.20 mm/s, and a laser beam diameter of 4.00 mm in this pulsed Nd:YAG laser system. In addition, we generalize the optimal conditions for plastic adhesion, such as energy per pulse, peak power, and the velocity of the target.

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Hee-Je Kim, Jin-An Jeon, Jin-Young Choi, Jeonghoon Kim, Ji-Tae Hong, Hyunwoong Seo, Dong-Gil Lee, Kyoung-Jun Lee, and Min-Kyu Son "Proposal of optimal process parameters for polymethylmethacryl plastic adhesion using a pulsed Nd:YAG laser," Optical Engineering 48(8), 084301 (1 August 2009). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3204233

Published: 1 August 2009

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