Hello
As the title say i am looking for information on intense pulsed light machines for particle sintering. If you know a manufacturer or if you have details on the conception of the electronic circuit of such machine please share your experience.
Thank you
I guess what you are looking for is a high powered pulsed laser for applications. In the following link I think you can find some information:
https://www.rp-photonics.com/bg/buy_industrial_lasers.html
IPL (Intense Pulsed Light) sintering is a alternative to laser sintering but the light is not focused in a single point. Most IPL machines use Xenon flash lightbulbs powered by large capacitors. One advantages of the method is the possibility to sinter large surfaces at once. It is not the same as pulsed LASER.
Dear Rémi Rafael , apparently Xenon is one of the main manufacturers of such kind of IPL lamps or sources. Please have a look to their website and some of their products used for instance for sintering copper nanoparticles based inks for printing electronics:
https://xenoncorp.com
https://xenoncorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/X-1100_Brochure_Rev1_ScreenOnly.pdf
Alternatively you can built your own system as the authors of the following paper did:
Article Intense pulsed light sintering of copper nanoink for printed...
"The IPL sintering system is composed of a xenon flash lamp (PerkinElmer QXA, UK), an aluminum reflector, a power supply, capacitors, a simmer triggering pulse controller, and a light filter. IPL is generated using an arc plasma phenomenon in the xenon flash lamp [7]. Once the gas is ionized, a spark is formed between the electrodes, allowing the capacitor current to conduct, which is the arc plasma phenomenon. A charged super capacitor (40000 µF) is used to deliver high electrical current (about 1000 A) in a short time (1–10 ms) when the lamp is triggered. During the arc plasma generation, the flash lamp emits an optical spectrum of light that covers a wide range of wavelength from 160 nm to 2.5 mm [7]. The conversion of electrical input power into radiated optical power is approximately 50% in the wavelength range of 200–1100 nm."
Hope this helps, and thanks for your question that let us discover new ideas! Regards!
Thank you Manuel Gómez, I am still looking into the details of the driving circuit to see whether it is better to buy or to build but your links are very helpful.
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