“…Despite this huge potential for mass savings, the application of magnesiumto-aluminum assemblies is still limited. While a great deal of effort has been focused on developing the vacuum diffusion welding [7][8][9], explosion welding [10], friction stir welding [11][12][13], tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding [14,15], laser beam welding [16], and laser-TIG hybrid welding [17] laser weld bonding [18,19], there exists an urgent need to develop a robust effective fusion method for mass production.…”