Perforating
Perforating copper foil at line speed
A perforation pattern cut in the web at line speed, with no tooling to wear. Coated-electrode results are established per chemistry in the trial.
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Battery & Energy
LasX develops laser processing for battery and energy applications — coated electrode foils, fuel-cell gaskets and membranes, and cell packaging materials — where mechanical cutting leaves burrs and particulate that a cell cannot tolerate.
fsFemtosecond capability where the heat-affected zone must approach zero
0Tool wear across the production run
Applications
What LasX equipment does in Battery & Energy
Cutting
Wide-web metal foil, roll-to-roll
Several LaserSharp® modules cut and perforate a wide metal-foil web at line speed — the approach for electrode foils and current collectors, where die wear and burr control are the problem.
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Ablating
Ultrashort-pulse ablation in coated graphite
A selective ablation window in coated graphite energy material, from application development. Ultrashort pulses keep the heat-affected zone down.
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Cutting
Fuel-cell gaskets and membranes
Fuel-cell components cut without the burrs and particulate that mechanical cutting leaves. Burr height and heat-affected zone are measured in the trial.
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Buy the equipment
Buy the equipment
FoilPro™ runs coated and bare foil roll-to-roll, with LaserSharp® modules on NIR and green sources, nanosecond through femtosecond, and the tension control, splice handling and extraction a metal web needs. No tool-wear drift to manage across a run. We measure burr height in the trial. The parameters are proven on your chemistry in the lab before anyone quotes a machine.
- Edge condition on coated electrode foils — burr height, coating recession, and debris measured against agreed limits
- No cutting blade to wear — we measure edge consistency over the agreed production run
- Femtosecond processing where the heat-affected zone must approach zero
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Have us make the parts
Contract processing of electrode materials, fuel-cell components, and battery package structures — development quantities through pilot production.
- Iterate cell formats without tooling each one
- Bridge from lab quantities to pilot line
Every mechanical process that touches an electrode wears, and wear drifts. A cell maker's cut-quality problem is usually a consistency problem — which is exactly the failure mode a digital process removes.
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Materials we process here
Questions we get asked
What about particulate and debris on electrode cuts?
Measured, not assumed. We characterize debris generation and edge quality per material and parameter set in the lab, then design the extraction to that result. For cell materials the data is the deliverable that matters.
The fastest way to find out is to send us the material.
Trials in the PhotonX lab come back as processed samples and a written report — not a proposal.