Patent ID: 7871903

Claim:
A method of precisely cutting selected substantially identical conductive circuit elements in an array of such elements arranged in at least one of one or more rows and one or more columns on a substrate, the cutting selectively removing material from the selected elements, the method comprising: generating at least one pulsed laser output beam; and irradiating the selected substantially identical conductive circuit elements with the pulsed laser output beam, the step of irradiating comprising: positioning and focusing the laser output beam to produce calibrated, aligned and focused beams to each of a plurality of selected elements of the array, wherein the step of positioning comprises: scanning the pulsed laser output beam in a scanning pattern over the array of elements; and superimposing a distribution pattern on the scanning pattern by deflecting the pulsed laser output beam with at least one programmable deflector; and, wherein the pulsed laser beam impinges each selected array element with controlled energy and wherein the pulsed laser beam selectively and accurately cuts each selected array element.