Laser Ablation Mechanisms and Applications [Paperback]

Lasers can readily remove very thin layers from small areasof a material and can thus be used both to control thestructure of the surface and to determine its composition.Laser ablation thus has a wide variety of applications -from re-shaping the cornea of the eye to correct vision andmicro-machining electronic devices, to detection of minutecontaminants on catalysts. This book is the proceedings ofone ofthe first workshops held on this topic.Proceedings of a Workshop Held in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA, 8-10 April 1991Lasers can readily remove very thin layers from small areasof a material and can thus be used both to control thestructure of the surface and to determine its composition.Laser ablation thus has a wide variety of applications -from re-shaping the cornea of the eye to correct vision andmicro-machining electronic devices, to detection of minutecontaminants on catalysts. This book is the proceedings ofone ofthe first workshops held on this topic.Diagnostic studies of YBa2Cu3O7?? laser ablation.- Pulsed laser deposition of high temperature superconducting thin films and hetero-structure.- In-Situ monitoring of laser ablation of superconductors.- Spectroscopic and ion probe characterization of laser produced plasmas used for thin film growth.- Synthesis of SiO2 thin films by reactive excimer laser ablation.- Characteristics of lasermaterial interactions monitored by inductively coupled plasmaatomic emission spectroscopy.- Trace surface analysis using ion and photon desorption with resonance ionization detection.- Pulse rate dependence of laser desorption and ionization of molecules on thin metal films: Mathematics of laser heating and pulse rate dependence.- Photodesorption of metal atoms by collective electron excitation.- Desorption of Al, Au, and Ag using surface plasmon excitation.- Threshold fluence UV laser excitation of W(100) and O2,H2,F/W(100): Photoejected ion KE distributiló\