ELID technology

A mirror surface was achieved on silicon nitride materials when ELID grinding was performed using a 4000 grit-size wheel. The finish ELID technology will find wide application in the optical and semiconductor industries such as mirror finishing of silicon wafers, many kinds of ceramics, ferrite, and glass. 

Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 9, and Chapter 15 present a new technology electrolytic in-process dressing (ELID) grinding of ceramics, which was developed in Japan by Professor Nakagawa and his student Dr. Ohmori, who is coauthor of three of the chapters dedicated to ELID technologies. The other authors spent long periods of time working with Dr. Ohmori and his... 

Ohmori, H. and Takahashi, I., "Efficient Grinding of Sintered Diamond and CBN Materials Utilizing Electrolytic In-Process Dressing (ELID)," Proceedings of the 1st International Abrasive Technology Conference, Seoul, Korea, 1993. 

Ohmori, H., Takahashi, I., and Bandyopadhyay, B.P., "Ultra Precision Grinding of Structural Ceramics by Electrol)rtic In-Process Dressing (ELID) Grinding," Jourrud of Materials Processing Technology, Elsevier, Vol. 57,1996, pp. 272-277. 

Bandyopadhyay, B.P., Ohmori, H., and Takahashi, I., Efficient and stable grinding of ceramics by electrolytic in-process dressing (ELID), Journal of Materials Processing Technology, Vol. 66,1997, pp. 18-24. 

Zhang, C., Ohmori, H., Marinescu, I., and Kato, T., Grinding of ceramic coatings with cast iron bond diamond wheels. A comparative study ELID and rotary dresser. International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 18, 2001b, pp. 545-552. 

Kato, T., Ohmori, H., Zhang, C., and Qian, J. Analysis of friction and wear properties of CVD-SiC film with ELID-grinding, Abrasive Technology Current Development and Applications I, [Page No. 8], 1999, pp. 165-172. 

Provides comprehensive discussion and analysis of the new ELID grinding technology... 

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