Electric Field-Assisted Glass Polishing Using Electro-Rheological Gel Pad |
| Journal |
Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 76 - 78) |
| Volume |
Advances in Abrasive Technology XII |
| Edited by |
Han Huang, Liangchi Zhang, Jun Wang, Zhengyi Jiang, Libo Zhou, Xipeng Xu and Tsunemoto Kuriyagawa |
| Pages |
319-324 |
| DOI |
10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.76-78.319 |
| Online since |
June, 2009 |
| Authors |
Yasuhiro Kakinuma, Singo Takezawa, Tojiro Aoyama, Katsutoshi Tanaka, Hidenobu Anzai |
| Keywords |
Abrasive, Adhesion, Electric Field Strength, Gels, Glass, Plate Polishing |
| Abstract |
. A polishing process, which is the final process in manufacturing optical elements, takes a long time and often depends on the experience and special skills. Development of a skill-less polishing technology and automation of its process, therefore, has been required. One of the most promising polishing technologies is Field-assisted Fine Finishing (FFF). In this study, an Electro-rheological Gel (ERG) polishing pad with one-sided patterned electrodes is developed to polish insulator materials and, moreover, a novel electric-field-assisted polishing technology for glass polishing is proposed applying this pad. The ERG polishing pad can change the polishing performance according to applied electric field due to “electro-adhesion effect”. Results of several polishing tests show that the performance of polishing a blue glass can be controlled by applying electric field to the ERG pad. |
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