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Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 52, Issue 8, 0802403(2025)

Femtosecond Laser Preparation of Bimaterial Micro‑Actuators

Kaiwen Liang¹, Deng Pan², Shengying Fan³, Zhongguo Ren¹, and Dong Wu^1、*

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¹School of Engineering Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, Anhui , China

²Information Materials and Intelligent Sensing Laboratory of Anhui Province, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, Anhui , China

³Laser Institute, Shandong Academy of Sciences, Jinan 250100, Shandong , China

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Kaiwen Liang, Deng Pan, Shengying Fan, Zhongguo Ren, Dong Wu. Femtosecond Laser Preparation of Bimaterial Micro‑Actuators[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2025, 52(8): 0802403

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Paper Information

Category: Laser Micro-Nano Manufacturing

Received: Dec. 11, 2024

Accepted: Dec. 31, 2024

Published Online: Apr. 8, 2025

The Author Email: Dong Wu (dongwu@ustc.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/CJL241437

CSTR:32183.14.CJL241437

Topics

laser devices and laser physics

Lasers and Laser Optics

laser manufacturing

Instrumentation, Measurement and Metrology