The present disclosure relates to a method and system for predicting the critical floating time of a reinforcing phase. According to the method, a particle concentration processing model, a half-life processing model, an agglomeration kinetics model, and a floating time processing model are combined to obtain the critical floating time of a reinforcing phase particle according to an initial particle size of the reinforcing phase particle, a density of the reinforcing phase particle, a mass fraction of the reinforcing phase of a composite soldering material, and a density of the composite soldering material. The method and system can accurately predict the critical floating time of the reinforcing phase particle.

A method for the anti-icing treatment of a surface of an aircraft part made of an organic matrix composites includes a texturing step in which the surface is irradiated with femtosecond laser pulses so as to render the surface superhydrophobic.

A method of processing a thin film structure comprising: providing a thin film structure comprising a stack of two or more thin film layers supported on a surface of a substrate, the stack having a depth orthogonal to the substrate surface; and forming a cut through the depth of the stack by using a direct write laser technique to scan a laser beam along a scan path covering an area of a desired cut line on a surface of the stack to ablate material of the stack along the cut line and through the depth of the stack at least to the surface of the substrate; wherein the direct write laser technique is implemented using an ultrashort pulsed laser outputting pulses with a duration of 1000 femtoseconds or less, at a wavelength in the range of 100 to 1500 nm, and delivering a fluence in the range of 50 to 100,000 mJ/cm2.

A method for manufacturing a sandwich panel as a semi-finished product where at least one layer of a non-metallic material is positioned between at least two metallic layers. At least one of the metal layers is shaped into a three dimensional layer and the metal layers are material closured to each other by a tack weld on the metallic contacts between the metallic layers to enable resistance weldability of the semi-finished product in order to connect the semi-finished product to a desired combination of solutions.

Disclosed is a film cutting apparatus for cutting a film fabric having a multilayer structure with a plurality of film layers and including a release film layer positioned at an outermost layer of one side of the film layers, the film cutting apparatus including a laser unit including a laser head configured to form a first cutting line on a predetermined first film group by cutting the first film group by selectively irradiating the first film group with a laser beam to include some film layers except for the release film layer among the film layers, and a cutting unit including a cutter configured to form a single cutting line by connecting a second cutting line and the first cutting line on a predetermined second film group by cutting the second film group using a cutting blade to include some film layers including at least the release film layer among the film layers.

A light guide device includes a first light guide part, a polygon mirror, a second light guide part, and an adjustment part. The first part reflects and guides a laser light emitted from a laser generator. The polygon mirror has a reflective part which reflects the light guided by the first part while the reflective part rotates. The second part reflects the light reflected at the reflective part and directs the light so that the light is illuminated to the workpiece at each reflective part, respectively. The adjustment part adjusts the position of the light incident on the polygon mirror in the rotation axis direction of the optical axis, thereby changing the positions of light incident on the irradiation target in the line width direction. The irradiation target is irradiated with the light while the position of the light in a line width direction.

A method for shaping a thin-film photovoltaic cell module from a photovoltaic cell sheet according to a predetermined contour of the module, where the cell sheet includes a flexible substrate based on a polymer or metal foil and a photovoltaic stack including one or more photo-active layers arranged on a front surface of the substrate. The method includes: providing the cell sheet, directing a laser beam towards a rear surface of the substrate; creating, by the laser beam, a trench in the rear surface, the trench shaped according to the contour such that the cell sheet is divided in a first portion within the contour and a second portion outside the contour; affixing a handling tool to one of the portions of the cell sheet on the rear surface of the substrate; selectively separating the portions by displacing the handling tool and one portion relative to the other portion.

A phased antenna array in a package is provided. The phased array antenna in a package comprises an antenna array with an integrated passive beamformer network, and at least one actuation mechanism. The passive beamformer network at least one phase shifter, and each of at least one phase shifter comprises a transmission line having a slow-wave structure and a ceramic. Each of the at least one actuation mechanism comprises a magnet and an electromagnet coil, where the magnet is coupled to the ceramic. The at least one actuation mechanism configured to increase or decease a gap between the transmission line and the ceramic.

To further improve electrodeposition coating properties in a weld bead zone. A welded joint according to the present invention includes: a first steel sheet and a second steel sheet; and a weld bead zone formed by arc welding or laser welding, wherein at least one of the first steel sheet or the second steel sheet has a plating layer composed of a predetermined component and an oxide layer located on the plating layer in a non-heat-affected zone, and the weld bead zone has a weld metal and a slag layer formed on part of a surface of the weld metal, and the slag layer contains, by mass % when oxygen is excluded, Al: 1.0 to 45.0% and Mg: 1.0 to 30.0%, with the balance composed of Fe, easily oxidizable metallic elements, and impurities.

A sheet processing method including irradiating a transparent conductive layer covered with a transparent sheet with a pulsed laser beam such that the pulsed laser beam is applied to a portion of the transparent conductive layer through the transparent sheet, and that the portion irradiated has an insulating property. The pulsed laser beam has a top-hat intensity distribution and has a transmittance through the transparent sheet being higher than a transmittance through the transparent conductive layer.