Laser-Surface Interactions for New Materials Production

Laser-Surface Interactions for New Materials Production
Author: Antonio Miotello
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2009-12-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3642033075

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.

Study of Gas-Surface Interactions by Laser-Induced Fluorescence Detection

Study of Gas-Surface Interactions by Laser-Induced Fluorescence Detection
Author: R. N. Zare
Publisher:
Total Pages: 7
Release: 1984
Genre:
ISBN:

The scattering of nitric oxide (NO) from a clean single-crystal of silver THE (111) FACE has been studied. The rotational and fine structure distributions of NOXsq pi have been determined as a function of surface temperature and of incident kinetic energy normal to the surface plane. The analysis technique is that of laser-induced fluorescence using a Nd:YAG pumped dye laser which is both frequency doubled and Raman shifted to overlap the NO(gamma) band system in the UV. It is found that the energy transferred into the NO rotational degree of freedom in a single gas-surface encounter is expressed by where E sub r is the mean rotational energy, E sub n the normal component of the NO kinetic energy, E sub s the surface temperature, E wub w a parameter characterizing the NO/Ag(111) well depth, and a and b are coefficients that express the fraction of kinetic and surface energy appearing as rotational excitation.

Dynamics of Gas-Surface Interaction

Dynamics of Gas-Surface Interaction
Author: Giorgio Benedek
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3642864554

In recent decades surface science has experienced a large growth in connection with the development of various experimental techniques which are able to characterize solid surfaces through the observation of the scattering of ions, electrons, photons or atoms. These methods of investigation, known under different labels such as LEED, AES, XPS, UPS, etc. have been extensively applied in describing the structure, morphology, and chemical and physical properties of crystal surfaces and interfaces of a large variety of materials of interest in solid-state physics, electronics, metallurgy, biophysics, and heterogeneous catalysis. Among these methods we wish to emphasize molecular beam scattering from solid surfaces. ~lolecular beam scattering has gone through a large development in the last ten years. In this decade a large number of laboratories have used this method to study various clean and adsorbate-covered surfaces. The technique is nonetheless quite old. It dates back to the beginning of the thirties, when Estermann and Stern performed the first atom diffraction experiment proving the wave nature of atoms. In the following years the entire subject of gas-surface interaction was considered a branch of rarefied gas dynamics and developed in connection with aerospace research. Attention was then given to the integral properties of gas-solid interactions (sticking and energy accomodation, mean momentum transfer) rather than to atom-surface scatter ing from well-characterized surfaces.

Laser Processing and Chemistry

Laser Processing and Chemistry
Author: Dieter Bäuerle
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 788
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3662040743

Laser Processing and Chemistry gives an overview of the fundamentals and applications of laser-matter interactions, in particular with regard to laser material processing. Special attention is given to laser-induced physical and chemical processes at gas-solid, liquid-solid, and solid-solid interfaces. Starting with the background physics, the book proceeds to examine applications of laser techniques in micro-machining, and the patterning, coating, and modification of material surfaces. This third edition has been revised and enlarged to cover new topics such as the synthesis of nanoclusters and nanocrystalline films, ultrashort-pulse laser processing, laser polishing, cleaning, and lithography. Graduate students, physicists, chemists, engineers, and manufacturers alike will find this book an invaluable reference work on laser processing.

Laser-Induced Gas-Phase and Surface Rate Processes: Electronic Excitations and Bound-Continuum Interactions

Laser-Induced Gas-Phase and Surface Rate Processes: Electronic Excitations and Bound-Continuum Interactions
Author: Thomas F. George
Publisher:
Total Pages: 30
Release: 1982
Genre:
ISBN:

Two different types of laser-induced gas-phase rate processes are studied theoretically: collisional ionization and multiphoton resonances in atom-atom scattering. The first involves the coupling between bound and continuum electronic states, and the second between bound and continuum vibrational states. In connection with surface processes, the use of a laser to excite electrons from the valence band to surface states of a semiconductor and the resulting effect on an adspecies is explored. (Author).

Laser - Surface Interactions

Laser - Surface Interactions
Author: Rashid A. Ganeev
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2013-10-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9400773412

This book is about the interaction of laser radiation with various surfaces at variable parameters of radiation. As a basic principle of classification we chose the energetic or intensity level of interaction of laser radiation with the surfaces. These two characteristics of laser radiation are the most important parameters defining entire spectrum of the processes occurring on the surfaces during interaction with electromagnetic waves. This is a first book containing a whole spectrum of the laser-surface interactions distinguished by the ranges of used laser intensity. It combines the surface response starting from extremely weak laser intensities (~1 W cm-2) up to the relativistic intensities (~1020 W cm-2 and higher). The book provides the basic information about lasers and acquaints the reader with both common applications of laser-surface interactions (laser-related printers, scanners, barcode readers, discs, material processing, military, holography, medicine, etc) and unusual uses of the processes on the surfaces under the action of lasers (art conservation, rangefinders and velocimeters, space and earth explorations, surface engineering and ablation, and others). The scientific applications of laser-surfaces interactions (surface optical nonlinearities, surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy, surface nanostructuring, nanoripples and clusters formation, X-ray lasers and harmonic generation from the surfaces) are discussed from the point of view of the close relations between the properties of surface and matter, which is a cornerstone of most of studies of materials. The novelty of the approach developed in Laser - Surface Interactions is related with the interconnection of scientific studies with numerous applications of the laser-surface interactions separated in different chapters by the ranges of laser intensities. We present most recent achievements in this field. The book provides valuable information for different ranges of reader's preparedness to the laser-related topics (from unprepared readers, to students, engineers and researchers, professionals and academics).