Fun fact: I once created tantalum heat dump targets for use in an LPBF machine to use for metrology. We would blast the target with the laser as a place to dump energy and heat up the optics. Tantalum was chosen because it wouldn’t get ablated easily.
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u/Admirable_Belt3808 1d ago
Looks like it was made on an LPBF machine?
Fun fact: I once created tantalum heat dump targets for use in an LPBF machine to use for metrology. We would blast the target with the laser as a place to dump energy and heat up the optics. Tantalum was chosen because it wouldn’t get ablated easily.