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Butterfly effect.
High-energy pulses lasting just a few picoseconds vaporize the material during UKP structuring. In the second step, the laser, now running with different parameters, melts the top 0.2–2 µm of the surface. It then smooths out. © Fraunhofer ILT, Aachen, Germany.
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