Fonon’s 3D Laser ZWLCT™ Glass Cutting Systems Have No Peers…
Fonon Technologies’ patented Zero Width Laser Cutting Technology (ZWLCT™) is a major discovery that remains the superior technology of choice today by Mother Glass Foundries. The demand for these systems remains high as new off-shore Flat Panel Display, Semiconductor and Electronic manufacturing facilities continue to emerge globally to support new market growth and cost reduction initiatives.
Zero Width Laser Cutting Technology has been optimized for thin-glass applications up to 1.0mm.
No other competing technology comes close to matching the superior performance of Fonon Technologies’ ZEROKerf™ glass cutting technology. Our patented process significantly increases edge quality and strength. Edge Impact Strength is increased up to 10 times when compared to full-contact mechanical scribe and break systems, while overall Glass Component Strength is improved up to 80%. ZWLCT™ splits materials at the molecular level under a non-contact process with tremendous speed resulting in no material loss, chips, lateral cracks, protrusions, hooks and flares or any other forms of contaminants.
ZWLCT™ eliminates surface degradation 100%, resulting in zero yield loss due to particulate damages across the glass surface caused by undesirable contaminates created by conventional mechanical scribe methods.
ZWLCT™
At the molecular level, Fonon Technologies’ patented ZWLCT™ generates a controlled MicroCrack™ to any selectable depth through glass (and other brittle materials) at a controlled, optimized angle to the surface of the material. By controlling the laser beam’s energy distribution under a proprietary temperature stress profile, the process creates scribe lines in a prescribed manner with no molecules leaving the surface of the glass, dramatically improving the substrate separation process.
The ZWLCT™ method incorporates cooling of the glass surface following controlled heating with the correct power density profile. This creates the intermolecular separation of the glass substrate to a predetermined depth.
Fonon Technologies’ 3D Laser ZWLCT™ Glass Cutting Systems can also be modified to enable the crossing of the laser cuts to provide a complete turnkey ZeroCut™ high-volume wafer dicing station.
Manufacturers and consumers benefit immediately from higher material strength as Fonon Technologies’ patented ZWLCT™ technology reduces production and handling damages at the factory while reducing premature latent product failures in the field due to shock.
Fonon Technologies optimizes each 3D Laser ZWLCT™ Glass Cutting System in response to continual advancements of customer applications.
Advantages of ZWLCT™ include:
- High cutting speed up to 1000 mm/sec
- Extremely high accuracy up to 10 microns achievable
- No post treatment of edges, such as grinding or edge seaming required
- Process unlimited component sizes up to Gen-10 and higher
- Easily adaptable to glass thickness changes during production
- Increased glass strength with no material loss or latent defects
- Excellent surface integrity of cut surface with no cracks or chips
- Precise edge geometries with almost any possible contour
- Edge Impact Strength up to 10X that of mechanical scribe & break methods
- Cut edges free of stress with Glass Component Strength improved 80%
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FLAT PANEL DISPLAY Processing Flat Panel Display Glass with ZWLCT™ technology improves edge impact strength up to 10 times and overall component strength up to 80% compared to conventional mechanical scribe methods. Fonon’s ZWLCT™ glass cutting systems reduce manufacturing costs, increase profit margins and dramatically increase yields providing a turnkey system that simultaneously laser scribes and breaks in one system. |
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THIN FILM TRANSISTORS (TFT) TFT liquid crystal displays improve image qualities including addressability and contrast in computer monitors, mobile phones, navigation systems, hand-held video game systems and television sets. Incorporating ZeroCut™ technology ensures the break line is the scribe line with no lateral cracks, serrations, surface deterioration or abasement. Fonon’s patented ZWLCT™ increases both the number of die and yield count of each TFT wafer continuing to lower production costs and increasing profit margins. |
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GLASS SEMICONDUCTOR WAFERS Wafers have the highest value at the dicing stage. It is critical from this point forward through the rest of the manufacturing process to maintain the highest yields and die count. Wafer Carriers, LEDs, Optical Sensors & Detectors, CMOS Image Sensors and Bonding Silicon-On-Insulators to glass wafers incorporating ZWLCT™ allow closer die spacing increasing the number of die/wafer. With no material breaching or fissures, yields are dramatically improved lowering production costs while eliminating potential latent field failures. |
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OPTICAL COLOR FILTERS Optical color filters are widely used in CRT Display, LCD, FED, CCD, Electronic Instrumentation, Telecommunication and Medical Devices. With 3D ZEROKerf™ processed glass, there are no chips, protrusions, scallops or hooks & flares materially increasing quality and longterm reliability while measurably reducing production costs. |
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SOLAR PANEL WAFERS Solar Panel Photovoltaic Wafers enhanced with ZWLCT ™ boost yields as scribe lines are created in a predetermined manner with no molecules leaving the surface of the material. Solar Panel manufacturing throughput rates increase dramatically. ZWLCT™ lowers manufacturing costs, increases profit margins and improves the quality of Solar Panel Wafers. |
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SCANNING MIRRORS Even Fonon’s 3D Metal Printer Systems and 3D Material Processing Systems benefit from ZEROKerf™ processed scanning mirrors used on Galvo Scan Heads as there is no breaching of the breaking crack into the body of the material. Fonon’s patented ZWLCT ™ provides the highest quality and long-term reliability for all glass cutting applications |
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HARD DISK DRIVES (HDD) Hard Disk Drives store and retrieve digital information using rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material. Fonon’s patented ZWLCT ™ Technology is a non-contact 3D laser stress-free process that dramatically increases yields as there are no contaminants generated to degrade the working surface of data storage disks. |
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MULTI-VESSEL PRESSURE WINDOWSHigh-Strength Pressurized Windows in spacecrafts, high-altitude aircraft and deep sea submersible vessels demand ZWLCT ™ when edge strength is critical. Combined with Fonon’s patented Extra Low Pressure Grinding Technology (ELPGT™), grinding, lapping and polishing multi-vessel pressure window applications ensures the highest quality and reliability when there is no margin for error. |
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DNA HISTOLOGY GLASS SLIDESFonon Technology has ZWLCT ™ application specific cutting systems that manufacture highvolume histology slides creating no glass particulates that could contaminate the entire working surface potentially corrupting DNA samples |
