High-tensile strength sticking induced by ArF excimer laser surface treatment of poly(tetrafluoroethylene)

Bela Hopp; K. Revesz; Zsolt Bor

doi:10.1117/12.316623

14 July 1998 High-tensile strength sticking induced by ArF excimer laser surface treatment of poly(tetrafluoroethylene)

Bela Hopp, K. Revesz, Zsolt Bor

Proceedings Volume 3423, Second GR-I International Conference on New Laser Technologies and Applications; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.316623
Event: Second GR-I International Conference on New Laser Technologies and Applications, 1997, Olympia, Greece

Abstract

A successful enhancement of sticking of PTFE is demonstrated using ArF excimer laser irradiation in the presence of novel photoreagents. The applied laser fluence was very low at the sample - photoreagent liquid interface compared to the energy density applied in earlier investigations. After the treatment the PTFE films were glued by epoxy resin. It was found that at low doses the tensile strength of the sticking increased rapidly with the UV pulse number and the reached a saturation value, which was 6.66 MPa for triethylamine, 5.56 MPa in the case of 1,2-diaminoethane and 4.64 MPa for triethylene-tetramine. These are around two hundred times higher than the value of the untreated surface. It was found that this procedure makes the metallization and painting of PTFE surface also possible. A photoinduced electron transfer mechanism was suggested to describe the photoreaction, which is responsible for the increase of adhesion features on PTFE surface.

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Bela Hopp, K. Revesz, and Zsolt Bor "High-tensile strength sticking induced by ArF excimer laser surface treatment of poly(tetrafluoroethylene)", Proc. SPIE 3423, Second GR-I International Conference on New Laser Technologies and Applications, (14 July 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.316623

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