TY - GEN
T1 - Electric field-assisted glass polishing using electro-rheological gel pad
AU - Kakinuma, Yasuhiro
AU - Takezawa, Singo
AU - Aoyama, Tojiro
AU - Tanaka, Katsutoshi
AU - Anzai, Hidenobu
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - A polishing process, which is the final process in manufacturing optical elements, takes a long time and often depends on the experience and special skills. Development of a skill-less polishing technology and automation of its process, therefore, has been required. One of the most promising polishing technologies is Field-assisted Fine Finishing (FFF). In this study, an Electro-rheological Gel (ERG) polishing pad with one-sided patterned electrodes is developed to polish insulator materials and, moreover, a novel electric-field-assisted polishing technology for glass polishing is proposed applying this pad. The ERG polishing pad can change the polishing performance according to applied electric field due to "electro-adhesion effect". Results of several polishing tests show that the performance of polishing a blue glass can be controlled by applying electric field to the ERG pad.
AB - A polishing process, which is the final process in manufacturing optical elements, takes a long time and often depends on the experience and special skills. Development of a skill-less polishing technology and automation of its process, therefore, has been required. One of the most promising polishing technologies is Field-assisted Fine Finishing (FFF). In this study, an Electro-rheological Gel (ERG) polishing pad with one-sided patterned electrodes is developed to polish insulator materials and, moreover, a novel electric-field-assisted polishing technology for glass polishing is proposed applying this pad. The ERG polishing pad can change the polishing performance according to applied electric field due to "electro-adhesion effect". Results of several polishing tests show that the performance of polishing a blue glass can be controlled by applying electric field to the ERG pad.
KW - Abrasive
KW - Adhesion
KW - Electric field strength
KW - Gels
KW - Glass
KW - Plate polishing
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U2 - 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.76-78.319
DO - 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.76-78.319
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:73949153185
SN - 087849314X
SN - 9780878493142
T3 - Advanced Materials Research
SP - 319
EP - 324
BT - Advances in Abrasive Technology XII
T2 - 12th International Symposium on Advances in Abrasive Technology, ISAAT2009
Y2 - 27 September 2009 through 30 September 2009
ER -