Issue 01:13

Featuring

• Destination nanochip
  Mechanical methods are reaching their limits. Lasers offer a promising new approach to chip manufacture.
• A heated affair
  Lasers and inductive heat, in perfect harmony.
• First!
  Gerardo Oaxaca saw the hot forming wave coming and dived right in.

Issue 02:12

• Gently done
  What could be better for a surface than a tool that never even touches it?
• "Join this"
  Ed Hansen explains why hybrid laser welding is becoming increasingly popular.
• Maximum points
  The one-eyed productivity miracle from Osterburken.

Issue 01:12

Featuring

• Super fresh
  Stainless steel and convenience foods: How the food industry discovered the benefits of the laser.
• Oven-ready
  An oven that comes in 500 different variants. If that reminds you of the auto industry, you’re on the same wavelength as EDAG and Electrolux.
• A cut above
  A blade that never loses its edge? It may be black, but it’s not magic.

Issue 02:11

Featuring

• Dance of the photons
  The next generation of scanner optics will allow the focus spot to dance around the workspace. We explain exactly what that will mean.
• "It helps me sleep better"
  Dan Hayden prepares parts for the harshest environments.
• Mix it!
  Femtosecond lasers mix and deposit complex coating systems in a single pass.