Extensive experimentation helps establish best practices for choosing the best laser setting across a range of materials, number of pulses, and burst shape.
Lithium-ion batteries help form the backbone of myriad electric devices. Optimizing which lasers to use for cutting and notching electrodes, however, remains an open question for the field with implications on productivity and quality.
Heidari Orojloo and Demir characterized and catalogued a variety of parameters for picosecond-pulsed lasers to shed light on how to pick the best laser solution for a given job. Through extensive experimentation, they explored the effects of changing the number of pulses, repetition rate and burst shape across a number of materials, including aluminum foil, cathode, copper foil, and anodes.
Their findings have led to an analytical model…
