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This digital document is an article from Mechanical Engineering-CIME, published by American Society of Mechanical Engineers on May 1, 1993. The length of the article is 590 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.From the supplier: The relatively new lithography, electroforming and plastic molding (LIGA) process that is used to create biomedical microstructures is also helpful in the manufacture of other medical machines and medical equipment. LIGA, a German acronym, requires the use of a costly synchrotron radiation machine to produce the X-ray lithography essential in the manufacturing of microstructures with parallel surfaces and thick parts in a number of shapes and sizes.Citation Details
Title: X-rays with a difference. (lithography, electro forming and plastic molding process)
Publication: Mechanical Engineering-CIME (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 1993
Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Volume: v115 Issue: n5 Page: p64(2)Distributed by Thompson Gale
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Of the manufacturing techniques used to make biomedical microstructures, the LIGA process is one of the most promising and more recently developed. The German acronym LIGA, which translates into lithography, electroforming, and plastic molding, represents the separate manufacturing steps that are part of this method of microstructure manufacture. Among LIGA's most distinguishing characteristics is its use of X-rays generated by synchrotron radiation machines, which cost millions of dollars and are scarce in the United States. When used in a process called X-ray lithography, the X-rays are largely responsible for LIGA's most desirable benefit--the ability to provide thick parts with extremely parallel surfaces in a part that has otherwise diminutive geometries.
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