HIGH-PRECISION DRY MICRO-ELECTRO-DISCHARGE MACHINING OF CARBON-NANOTUBE FORESTS WITH ULTRALOW DISCHARGE ENERGY

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Saleh, Tanveer [1 ]
Dahmardeh, Masoud [1 ]
Bsoul, Anas [1 ]
Nojeh, Alireza [1 ]
Takahata, Kenichi [1 ]
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[1] Univ British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada
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2012 IEEE 25TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MICRO ELECTRO MECHANICAL SYSTEMS (MEMS) | 2012年
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This work investigates reverse-polarity dry micro-electro-discharge machining (mu EDM) of pure carbon-nanotube (CNT) forests that are used as cathodes in the process, as opposed to conventional mu EDM where the material to be machined forms the anode. The new configuration with the reversed polarity is observed to generate higher discharge currents, most likely due to effective field-emission from CNTs. This effect allows the process to be performed at very low discharge energies, similar to 80x smaller than in the conventional normal-polarity case, with the machining voltage and tolerance down to 10 V and 2.5 mu m, respectively, enabling high-precision high-aspect-ratio micropatterning in the forests.
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