This page presents the features of companies that offer laser drilling services.
ACCUMET
ACCUMET works with brittle materials including silicon (Si), gallium arsenide (GaAs), gallium nitride (GaN), silicon carbide (SiC), ceramic, and glass.
Its contactless processing using lasers produces small heat-affected-zones (HAZs), which prevents cracking, stress fractures, and property changes caused by heat. There is also no tool wear, so processing precision and reproducibility can be maintained over the long term.
Micron Laser Technology provides high-precision laser drilling services, with a focus on micro-via-hole and through-hole drilling for PCBs and HDIs.
It optimizes its UV and IR lasers based on hole diameters and materials and achieves tolerances of 5 µm or even lower. It uses both percussion and trepanning and works with a wide range of materials, including metal, ceramic, and glass. It also offers microfabrication services for semiconductor materials such as silicon.
IPG performs high-speed, high-precision laser drilling. It is capable of drilling several hundred to several thousand holes per second. It can drill holes with aspect ratios in excess of 10:1, yet with minimal tapering, and its use of contactless processing ensures high reliability.
Its processing resolution is able to place adjacent holes just a few µm apart, and it can also drill holes in tilted surfaces and complex shapes. IPG is versatile, working with diverse materials, so it is well-suited for all kinds of industrial applications.
Company Information
Company Name
IPG Photonics
Location
377 Simarano Drive
Marlborough, MA 01752
USA
Telephone
+1-(508)-373-1100 (head office main line)
+1-(877)-980-1550 (North America toll-free number)
OpTek Systems provides services for a broad range of industrial fields, including micro-hole drilling using precision lasers. It has diverse laser sources, from UV to IR, which is uses to create high-precision holes with diameters between 1 µm and several hundred µm.
It can create circular and non-circular holes and also control cross-section shapes, such as cylindrical shapes or tapers. These technologies are used in precision manufacturing fields such as electronics and semiconductors.
Company Information
Company Name
OpTek Systems
Location
23300 Haggerty Road
Farmington Hills, MI 48335
USA
Gateway Laser Services performs high-precision laser drilling with a tolerance of ±1 µm and is capable of microfabrication at the 5 µm level. It creates high quality edge finishes on a variety of materials, such as polymers, metals, and ceramics.
It provides micro drilling services to diverse fields in components such as medical device components, flow control filters, electronic application contacts, masks, and stencils.
Company Information
Company Name
Gateway Laser Services, Inc.
Location
1345 Millpark Drive, Suite A
Maryland Heights, MO 63043
USA
EBTEC specializes in drilling in difficult-to-process high alloys and compound materials for the aerospace, medical, and power generation fields.
It has 15 multi-axis laser machines, such as Nd:YAG lasers and kW-class fiber lasers, and can also drill angle holes and drill holes in areas that are difficult to access. It can perform precision processing for high performance components with complex shapes.
Spectrum uses laser processing technologies with minimal thermal impacts and material wear to drill fine holes with diameters of 5 µm and aspect ratios of 10:1 or even higher.
It combines diverse processing methods, such as single-shot, masking, percussion, and trepanning, to produce high-precision finishes matched to material and design requirements. Its services are used for the micro drilling of microelectronics components such as semiconductors.
Company Information
Company Name
Spectrum Plastics Group
Location
11605 Haynes Bridge Road, Suite 550
Alpharetta, GA 30009
USA
Lenox Laser uses laser micro drilling technologies to form extremely small, high-precision holes with diameters as small as 0.5 µm (500 nanometers). It specializes in processing involving complex shapes using high-precision apertures and slits, and flexibly accommodates production sizes from single prototypes to mass production.
Its technologies work with diverse materials, such as silicon, metal, and glass, and are used in precision manufacturing in fields such as the semiconductor, medical, aerospace, and electronic device fields.
It is important to check if potential partners have a track record that matches your own requirements, including materials, hole diameters, quantities, and more. The types of equipment, laser technologies, and supported precision levels and thicknesses should also be used as selection criteria.
Furthermore, it's important to determine the overall reliability of the company, taking into consideration its systems for handling production volumes, from prototypes to mass production, quality management, turnaround times, and the like.
[Choose by Fabrication Type] Top Three Recommended Microfabrication Partners
For difficult-to-cut materials
Koyo High Precision
Source: Koyo High Precision website (https://koyohighprecision.com/)
Examples of supported materials
Tungsten, molybdenum, tantalum,etc.
Main fabrication technologies
Micro drilling
Lathe machining
Milling
Why We Recommend
They perform fabrication for a wide range of sizes, from ⌀3 to 220 mm,and they can handle everything from prototype development to mass production fabrication for difficult-to-cut materials
They can achieve a fabrication precision of ±3 μm even for tungsten,which is known for being difficult to cut.
