Surfi-Sculpt is a revolutionary new materials processing technology developed at TWI. Using a power beam, a material can be processed to give a number of different types of feature or surface type.
Power beams, electron beams at present, reshape materials precisely and so 'grow' protrusions that rise from the surface of the material. For each protrusion there can be a corresponding hole into the bulk of the material. The electron beam is controlled by a programmable system comprising hardware and software developed at TWI.
While the physical limits of the process are being explored, protrusions in the order of 2mm high and 200 microns wide have been typical of those created within TWI's laboratories.
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