Manyalibo Matthews, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), CA, USA
California-based Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) oversees the National Ignition Facility (NIF), which houses the world's largest and most energetic laser. Repeated use of this laser can damage the optics, which guide and focus the laser within the system.
Manyalibo Matthews, deputy group leader in the Materials Science Division of LLNL, and his team study techniques to repair and maintain the laser's fused silica optics. Read about how they used the COMSOL Multiphysics® software to simulate laser-material interactions. This enabled them to explore infrared (IR) pulsed laser microshaping/micromachining, slow annealing, and laser chemical vapor deposition (L-CVD). The team also optimized an additive process for 3D printing called selective laser melting (SLM).
Suggested Stories
Making Smart Materials Smarter with Multiphysics Simulation
Smart materials with magnetostrictive behavior are engineered and incorporated in high-precision devices by the ...
Improving Gas Pipeline Squeeze-Off Standards with Numerical Simulation
Gas Technology Institute (GTI), a leader in natural gas research, development, and training, investigated industry ...
A New Route to High Sensitivity Pressure Sensors
The environments in which sensors are most integral are often the most harsh and unforgiving, such as vacuum chambers, ...
Optimizing the Performance of Complex Building Façades
Engineers at Newtecnic specialize in complex building design, working with bold and fluid architectural shapes. To ...
