Blind Hole Machining

Blind holes are indentations of various shape and

depth that do not break through the workpiece.

The importance of blind hole machining is

increasing with the growing popularity of 3D

semiconductor packaging technology.

Lasers allow high precision milling of

blind holes with very high aspect ratio,

high edge quality, tightly controlled

depths, as well as creation of

tapered and square holes, all

with high throughput and

reproducibility.

By using proprietary laser techniques IPG machines high aspect ratio taper less holes in material thicknesses up to 2 mm. Examples include 25 micron diameter holes in 1 mm thick tungsten and nylon disks, or 50 microns diameter holes in 2 mm thick materials.

Advanced illumination optics are used to condition the laser beam to provide a uniform distribution of energy on the exposed area, typically

 

better than ± 5 %. This allows machining with extremely accurate depth control since a pulse by pulse, layer by layer, removal process can be used to machine the part with sub-micron level depth control.

IPG’s UV workstations can be provided for blind hole and through hole drilling, with manual-load, semi-automatic and fully automatic micromachining systems available.


Blind Hole Glass Drilling

Due to its tendency to crack with thermal stress and its transparency, glass is a difficult material to laser drill with high precision. Large arrays of micron scale blind or through holes can be process with sub-micron depth control in materials up to 500 μm thick. Single high repeatability counter bored holes in 150 μm thick glass is one example of a typical production process provided by IPG Photonics.

Figure shows blind holes 50 µm diameter up to 400 µm deep in glass.

IPG Photonics provides both lasers and integrated solutions for all types of glass microprocessing applications.

Systems: Microfluidic Drilling

Lasers: UV ns  pulsed lasers,  3-10 picosecond lasers

 

  Blind Hole Laser Drilling Glass

Blind Hole Polymer Drilling

Arrays of simple or complex mask features can be projected onto the target, and exposed sequentially to produce tridimensional features of various sizes and shapes.  Several features may be exposed with a single pulse, and exposure fields can be stepped across the part to achieve large-area patterning

Systems:  Microfluidic Drilling

Lasers: UV ns  pulsed lasers, green ns pulsed lasers, 3-10 picosecond lasers

  Blind Hole Polymer Laser Drilling

Patterning of Highly-dense Features by UV Ablation

When large amounts of material must be removed by UV light, the total laser power is the key for high throughput. The process is efficient when the laser beam is shaped to fill large area mask.

The figure shows massively parallel blind hole array in polymer. In this example one hundred ~ 4 µm diameter holes fit in a 50 × 50 µm area. The minimum feature size in this process can be down to 2 μm.

Systems:  Microfluidic Drilling

Lasers: UV ns  pulsed lasers, green ns pulsed lasers, 3-10 picosecond lasers

  Patterning of Highly-dense Features by UV Ablation on polymer - blind hole laser drilling

 

   
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