Laser micromachining can be used to drill, mill, and cut metals with micron precision.
All metals can be laser processed with features sizes in the range of single microns through to hundreds of microns.
Laser micromachining can be used to machine a wide range of metals which include stainless steel, copper, aluminum, and gold etc. As well as these more common metals, Oxford Lasers specialize in machining materials that are particularly difficult to machine using conventional means such as high melting point metals like tungsten, tantalum, iridium and molybdenum, these metals being particularly difficult to machine conventionally due to their high hardness level.
Oxford Lasers have a wide variety of lasers sources to process different metals, which allow us to overcome limitations of burr formation, melting, crack formation etc.
All metals can be machined where parts have overall lengths in centimeters, with laser micromachining particularly valuable in processing feature sizes of <250microns; for features sizes <100microns, laser micromachining truly shines.
A sample of metals we can machine include:
Aluminium | Copper | Gold | Steel | Tungsten | Plus many more...
The materials detailed above are purely a summary overview, therefore if the material you are interested in working in is not listed, please contact us.