CUTTING TOOL USING ONE OR MORE MACHINED TOOL TIPS WITH DIFFRACTIVE FEATURES

A cutting tool assembly having a tool post capable of lateral movement along a work piece to be cut and a shank on the tool post holding at least one machined tool tip and possibly other tool tips. The tool tip has diffractive features in contact with the work piece in order to machine macro-scale f...

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Hauptverfasser: GARDINER, Mark, E, CLEMENTS, Jeffrey, E, DUPRE, Mark, R
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Sprache:eng ; fre ; ger
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Zusammenfassung:A cutting tool assembly having a tool post capable of lateral movement along a work piece to be cut and a shank on the tool post holding at least one machined tool tip and possibly other tool tips. The tool tip has diffractive features in contact with the work piece in order to machine macro-scale features having nano-scale features. The machined work piece can be used to make articles having diffractive features such as optical films having lenslets.