Free download Laser-Surface Interactions for New Materials Production: Tailoring Structure and Properties by Antonio Miotello, Paolo M. Ossi. Published by Springer. English | 358 Pages | PDF | ISBN: 3642033067
Description of Laser-Surface Interactions
This book provides an overview on nanosecond and ultra-short laser-induced phenomena and the related diagnostics. It grew from the lectures of the International School “Laser-surface interactions for new materials production” held in July 2008.
Laser vaporization of solid targets has long been a tool for the synthesis and discovery of clusters by mass spectrometry, resulting in the discovery of C60 and higher fullerenes in 1985.
Two years later, yttrium–barium–copper oxide, high-temperature superconductors were discovered, and commercial excimer lasers were found to congruently vaporize multicomponent targets to grow thin films of these materials, fueling a resurgence of interest in pulsed laser deposition (PLD) for materials discovery, and a need to more fully understand the laser vaporization process.
In 1996, while trying to develop a catalyst-assisted process for the mass production of fullerenes, laser vaporization of a multicomponent (carbon and metal catalyst) target into flowing argon gas at high temperatures (1, 100◦C) resulted in the synthesis of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), a major breakthrough in their production.
In 1998, this laser vaporization technique was generalized for the VLS-synthesis of semiconducting nanowires [6,7], further emphasizing the role of lasers in the exploration of new nanomaterials.
These discoveries were highly instrumental in the development of an understanding of the synthesis of nanomaterials. In this article, we will outline some of the key processes governing the synthesis of nanomaterials by laser-driven interactions, with a special emphasis on carbon materials.
It Include
- Laser Interactions in Nanomaterials Synthesis
- Basic Physics of Femtosecond Laser Ablation
- Atomic/Molecular-Level Simulations of Laser–Materials Interactions
- Continuum Models of Ultrashort Pulsed Laser Ablation
- Cluster Synthesis and Cluster-Assembled Deposition in Nanosecond Pulsed Laser Ablation
- Nanoparticle Formation by Femtosecond Laser Ablation
- UV Laser Ablation of Polymers: From Structuring to Thin Film Deposition