The aim of this paper is to present the pulsed laser breaking technique, a technique that further builds on the unstable
fracture technique. In this study, a diamond-point scoring tool was used to scribe a groove and create a median crack
(grooved-crack) along the cutting path in a glass substrate. A pulsed CO2 laser was then applied at the cutting path to cut
the glass substrate. A crack developed in the grooved-crack after the first laser pulse, increased in length after the second
pulse, and then extended unstably after the third. The scribed grooved-crack determined the direction of crack
propagation. The glass substrate separated along the scribed path. The surface of the separated pieces was free of microcracks
common to mechanical breaking. The scribe force and groove depth were established and the laser parameters
were set. Photographs of the glass substrate surface were obtained to analyze the cutting quality. An image processing
system of crack detection was employed to obtain the crack image continuously during the laser breaking process. The
stress analyses via ANSYS were performed to explain the mechanism of the breaking process that has been successfully
developed in this study on cutting LCD glass substrates.
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