Increasing Speed to Market With Innovative Products and Services
Companies with streamlined product development capabilities gain improved competitive advantages with increased ability to predict time-to-market, and allocation of resources for rolling out the product at the right time and place. Speed to Market product timelines contain four milestone periods: 1) generation of the product idea; 2) complete design cycle; 3) development; and, 4) market launch. Skilled execution of these four stages, […]
Smarter Internet Of Things Becomes Intelligence of Manufacturing Things
2019 marks a definitive milestone for IoT, largely influenced by the upcoming launch of 5G in 2020. We already know that everything that can be connected will be connected. The next step is to build microscopic IoT gadgets whose design trends require niche-integrated, multifunctional solutions in the shape of different sensors that include connectivity. Mechanical […]
IMPULSE in Time-resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy
Studying Quantum Coherence on Metal Surfaces with IMPULSE+iNOPA High electron density materials elicit an ultrafast coherent response when interacting with light, from sub-femtosecond to a few femtoseconds, which makes experimental observation highly difficult. To meet this challenge, the research group of Professor Hrvoje Petek at the University of Pittsburgh used an IMPULSE laser pumped iNOPA […]
Femtosecond Laser Micromilling Application Examples: Serial Sectioning and Wear-Defect Simulation
Femtosecond laser micromilling, or ablative laser processing, removes material in, virtually, any shape or pattern. Cut widths down to a few microns are achievable and sub-micron kerfs are possible for very thin materials. Femtosecond laser machining enables repeated manufacture of precision components with complex patterns. 3D blind features can be created with depth resolutions within a […]
Congratulations Gerard!
Clark-MXR would like to congratulate this year’s Physics Nobel laureates, Professors Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland for their invention of Chirped pulse amplification and Professor Arthur Ashkin for optical tweezers. For Clark-MXR, this is a joyous occasion as Prof. Gerard Mourou is one of our co-founders and our CPA-Series laser, first introduced in 1992, is named after the Chirped Pulse Amplification technique that Profs. Gerard Mourou and […]
Achieving Lower Costs with µManufactured Components and Assemblies for OEM Instrument Manufacturers
THE CHALLENGE Manufacturers of analytical and diagnostic instrumentation have ongoing pressures to reduce costs. Use of ultrafast laser micromachining processing methods, by Clark-MXR, has improved customer’s bottom lines by providing new, groundbreaking capability for producing microscopic machined features on engineered components. Clark-MXR’s leading edge laser micromachining technology coupled with micromanufacturing expertise, cleanroom inspection and packaging […]
Ultrafast Laser Micromachining Creates Surface Modifications to Assist R&D Developments
Ultrafast laser micromachining of surface modifications produce geometrical structures that conduct very precise functions. As the demand for device miniaturization continues, ultrafast or femtosecond laser micromachining produce surface reliefs on a micrometric or even nanometric scale and with high aspect ratios. Application examples Surface chevrons for enzyme reactions in point-of-care tests Lab-on-Chip microfluidic channels […]
Using Lasers to Produce Faster Electronics and Better Solar Cells
Recently, the concept of integrating photonics and electronics, with the goal of producing faster electronics and more effective solar cells, has been attracting a significant amount of interest. To properly understand this idea, the small-scale electronic and photovoltaic processes must be investigated on the atomic or molecular level. Prof. Hrvoje Petek and his research group […]
Using Label-free imaging techniques to further understanding of Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune inflammatory disease that affects nearly 2.3 million young adults worldwide. In cases of MS, the immune system promotes an attack on the central nervous system (CNS), often leading to disability and degeneration. The MS lesion is traditionally considered the leading indicator of CNS damage and thus has been studied […]
Burning Coal with Femtosecond Laser Pulses
Since before the industrial age, graphite materials have played an essential role in daily life: their properties are seen in everything from burning embers to the first electric bulbs. Even as technologies advance, graphite materials continue to pique interest in the human mind. One example is graphene, a two-dimensional material with remarkable optical and electronic […]
