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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2015
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Jonas Bankaitis, Horseheads, NY (US);
Venkata Adiseshaiah Bhagavatula, Big Flats, NY (US);
Daniel Warren Hawtof, Corning, NY (US);
Xinghua Li, Horseheads, NY (US);
Gary Edward Merz, Rochester, NY (US);
John Stone, III, Painted Post, NY (US);
CORNING INCORPORATED, Corning, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method for making a thin sintered silica sheet is provided. The method includes providing a soot deposition surface and forming a glass soot sheet by delivering a stream of glass soot particles from a soot generating device to the soot deposition surface. The method includes providing a sintering laser positioned to direct a laser beam onto the soot sheet and forming a sintered glass sheet from the glass soot sheet by delivering a laser beam from the sintering laser onto the glass soot sheet. The sintered glass sheet formed by the laser sintering system or method is thin, has low surfaces roughness and/or low contaminant levels.