Laser stripping of Polyamide coating over Platinum thin wire conductors

Laser wire stripping is an emerging technology, and this project aims to develop a laser process to achieve adequate stripping of the polyamide insulation from the platinum wire. To optimize the process, the laser parameters (speed, power, and focus) must be fine-tuned. Post stripping, the project focus will shift to identifying the characteristics of the platinum owing to the thermal influence of laser processing. For this, Scanning Electron Microscopy shall be used to study the effectiveness of soldering. Also, tensile testing will be conducted on both pure platinum, and wire stripped platinum to benchmark the properties for the laser stripping process. Additionally, there is a need to design a Jig/Fixture together with a machine vision system to simplify the stripping process that can be operated by anyone at the partner organization with out requiring specialized skill set.

Faculty Supervisor:

Sivakumar Narayanswamy

Student:

Partner:

Instrumentation Dynatherm

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Concordia University

Program: