Precision laser manufacturing enabling advanced technologies - Dr Patrick Salter
Abstract
To meet demand for devices that can operate effectively in extreme environments, unusual robust materials are required as are new manufacturing technologies. Laser-based manufacturing provides a flexible platform that can work across length scales for fabrication at the sub-micrometre level across large areas and inside the volume of materials. Of particular interest in the next generation of laser processing are systems that utilise ultrashort pulsed lasers, delivering bursts of light shorter than a millionth of a millionth of a second, to provide extreme precision fabrication. We will explore how advances at Oxford are enabling new devices in challenging materials, such as diamond and sapphire, with destinations from the Large Hadron Collider through to quantum computers.
Brief biography
Dr Patrick Salter is an Early Career EPSRC Fellow working on using short pulse laser fabrication to enable new functional devices based upon synthetic diamond. He is also a Junior Research Fellow at New College.
