A laser beam moves across the surface of the glass with absolute precision, following a preprogrammed if still invisible path. Every now and then, the beam stops, changes position and moves on.

A new laser-based production technique developed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials (IWM), Freiburg, Germany, makes it possible to bend sheet glass into complex or unconventional ...

If you want to incorporate protruding features into a sheet of glass, the typical way of doing so involves using molds. Those molds are costly to manufacture, however. That's why the Fraunhofer ...

By putting a sacrificial sheet of thin aluminum foil between 3D printed PLA and glass, then sending the laser through the glass into the aluminum, researchers were able to bond it all together in ...