Our vast experience with laser machining has served our customers well throughout the years.  There are times, however, when additional processing steps are required to satisfy certain applications.  As a cost-savings, as well as a time-savings measure, we offer many additional process capabilities to our customers.

Our additional process capabilities include:

• Annealing: Heat treatment of thick and thin film ceramic substrates to thermally modify the heat-affected zone (HAZ) allowing for improved via metal adhesion or, in some cases, to relieve residual stresses.
• Clean Firing: Exposure to a Nominal Temperature in excess of 1100oC, but significantly less than the material’s defined sintering temperature, to remove possible organic based contamination.
• Camber and Surface finish Verification: Should our customer require non-standard camber or surface finish, we are able to measure and sort through our available inventory upon request.
• Diamond Dicing:  When tighter tolerances on length and width dimensions are required, dicing offers a tolerance as low as ± 0.0005" depending upon material size and thickness.  Dicing also offers a smooth, clean edge.
• Surface Lapping & Polishing: Should our customer require non-standard as-fired finish, surface lapping and polishing is the solution for achieving the tightest tolerances and parallelism.  Please contact us with your specification requirements.
• Edge Grinding: This process prepares surfaces for additional processing and/or smoothes or roughens surfaces to meet finishing requirements.
• Bead Blasting: Abrasive particles and air are compressed and then forced through a nozzle which will provide a variety of finishes and deburring options