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Title: High Speed Fabrication of Highly Uniform Metallic Spheres
UC Case No: 2000-444-3-ott
Categories: Mechanical Engineering: Miscellaneous
Technology: An inexpensive method of generating highly uniform metallic balls from capillary stream break-up at ultra high speeds. Manufacture of solder balls (and other metallic balls), commonly used in the electronics industry, can be achieved using this method. Due to the nature of the droplet formation from the capillary stream break-up employed by this method, the resulting balls are highly uniform. The fabrication rate is on the order of tens of thousands of drops/sec, with no sieving or sorting necessary.
Contact: Demetrios Andrikos, Director, Engineering & Physical Sciences
Office of Technology Alliances
University of California, Irvine
380 University Tower
Irvine, CA 92697-7700

Phone: (949) 824-1233
FAX: (949) 824-2899
Email: dandriko@uci.edu
Patent Status: U.S. Patent No. 7,029,624
UCI School: School of Engineering
Department: Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering