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Volume 92, Issue 4

September 2008

Special Issue: “Laser Ablation: Fundamentals”

Issue Editors:

Boris Luk'yanchuk,
Saulius Juodkazis,
Thomas Lippert

53 articles in this issue

Underwater excimer laser ablation of polymers
I. Elaboudi
S. Lazare
C. Labrugère
OriginalPaper 20 May 2008 Pages: 743 - 748
Material processing of dielectrics with temporally asymmetric shaped femtosecond laser pulses on the nanometer scale
L. Englert
M. Wollenhaupt
T. Baumert
OriginalPaper 22 May 2008 Pages: 749 - 753
Analysis of the laser ablation processes for thin-film silicon solar cells
Stefan Haas
Gunnar Schöpe
Helmut Stiebig
OriginalPaper 17 May 2008 Pages: 755 - 759
Ultrafast dynamic ellipsometry measurements of early time laser ablation of titanium thin films
C. A. Bolme
D. J. Funk
OriginalPaper 24 May 2008 Pages: 761 - 766
Investigation of debris dynamics from laser-produced tin plasma for EUV lithography light source
D. Nakamura
K. Tamaru
T. Okada
OriginalPaper 20 May 2008 Pages: 767 - 772
Enhanced scattering efficiencies in spherical particles with weakly dissipating anisotropic materials
B. S. Luk’yanchuk
Cheng-Wei Qiu
OriginalPaper 17 May 2008 Pages: 773 - 776
Temporal pulsewidth and the wavelength dependences of the product ions obtained by laser ablation of solid C₆₀
T. Kobayashi
T. Kato
J. Kawai
OriginalPaper 17 May 2008 Pages: 777 - 780
Aryltriazene photopolymer thin films as sacrificial release layers for laser-assisted forward transfer systems: study of photoablative decomposition and transfer behavior
Matthias Nagel
Romain Fardel
Alexander Wokaun
OriginalPaper 22 May 2008 Pages: 781 - 789
The mechanism of nanobump formation in femtosecond pulse laser nanostructuring of thin metal films
Dmitriy S. Ivanov
Baerbel Rethfeld
Leonid V. Zhigilei
OriginalPaper Open access 20 June 2008 Pages: 791 - 796
Thresholds for front-side ablation and rear-side spallation of metal foil irradiated by femtosecond laser pulse
S. I. Anisimov
N. A. Inogamov
P. S. Komarov
OriginalPaper 28 May 2008 Pages: 797 - 801
Transient reflectivity and transmission changes during plasma formation and ablation in fused silica induced by femtosecond laser pulses
D. Puerto
W. Gawelda
J. Solis
OriginalPaper 27 May 2008 Pages: 803 - 808
Ion extraction from the surface ablated materials in electric fields using an intense femtosecond laser pulse
T. Kato
M. Kurata-Nishimura
J. Kawai
OriginalPaper 22 May 2008 Pages: 809 - 812
Microplasma generated at solid–solid interface and its application to nanostructure formation
D. Nakamura
J. Nishimura
T. Okada
OriginalPaper 20 May 2008 Pages: 813 - 816
Observation of the matrix effect due to the electron transfer in laser ablation plasma
T. Kobayashi
T. Kato
J. Kawai
OriginalPaper 17 May 2008 Pages: 817 - 819
Generation of surface features in films deposited by matrix-assisted pulsed laser evaporation: the effects of the stress confinement and droplet landing velocity
Aaron Sellinger
Elodie Leveugle
Leonid V. Zhigilei
OriginalPaper 22 May 2008 Pages: 821 - 829
CdS plume composition and dynamics of neutral species upon ablation with 532 nm laser light
Jesús Alvarez
Marien Lopez-Arias
Margarita Martín
OriginalPaper 24 May 2008 Pages: 831 - 836
Formation of nanocavities in dielectrics: influence of equation of state
L. Hallo
A. Bourgeade
V. T. Tikhonchuk
OriginalPaper 28 May 2008 Pages: 837 - 841
Effect of pressure relaxation during the laser heating and electron–ion relaxation stages
B. Chimier
V. T. Tikhonchuk
L. Hallo
OriginalPaper 24 May 2008 Pages: 843 - 848
Molecular dynamics simulation of ultrafast laser ablation of fused silica film
Y. Wang
X. Xu
L. Zheng
OriginalPaper 28 May 2008 Pages: 849 - 852
Nanosecond laser-induced surface damage of optical multimode fibers and their preforms
Guido Mann
Jens Vogel
Jörg Krüger
OriginalPaper 16 May 2008 Pages: 853 - 857
Poly(ethylene glycol) cationization with alkali metals in matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization investigated with the solvent-free method
Ana R. Hortal
Paola Hurtado
Luis Bañares
OriginalPaper 17 May 2008 Pages: 859 - 863
Propagation of terawatt laser pulses in the air
L. Roso
J. San Román
L. Plaja
OriginalPaper 24 May 2008 Pages: 865 - 871
Lifetime of optical phonons in fs-laser excited bismuth
D. Boschetto
T. Garl
A. V. Rode
OriginalPaper 20 May 2008 Pages: 873 - 876
Influence of photoexcitation pathways on the initiation of ablation in poly (methyl methacrylate)
Manish Prasad
Patrick F. Conforti
Barbara J. Garrison
OriginalPaper 16 May 2008 Pages: 877 - 881
Modeling of residual thermal effect in femtosecond laser ablation of metals: role of a gas environment
N. M. Bulgakova
V. P. Zhukov
Chunlei Guo
OriginalPaper 20 May 2008 Pages: 883 - 889
Formation of linear momentum in a rod during a laser pulse–matter interaction
T. Požar
R. Petkovšek
J. Možina
OriginalPaper 16 May 2008 Pages: 891 - 895
Near-damage threshold femtosecond laser irradiation of dielectric surfaces: desorbed ion kinetics and defect dynamics
Florenta Costache
Sebastian Eckert
Jürgen Reif
OriginalPaper 13 June 2008 Pages: 897 - 902
Analysis of the nonlinear absorption mechanisms in ablation of transparent materials by high-intensity and ultrashort laser pulses
Irina N. Zavestovskaya
Peter G. Eliseev
Natalia A. Men’kova
OriginalPaper 27 May 2008 Pages: 903 - 906
Influence of the atomic mass of the background gas on laser ablation plume propagation
Salvatore Amoruso
Jørgen Schou
James G. Lunney
OriginalPaper 24 May 2008 Pages: 907 - 911
Cross patterning on MgO based on dislocations using femtosecond laser irradiation
Shingo Kanehira
Kiyotaka Miura
Yuichi Ikuhara
OriginalPaper 16 May 2008 Pages: 913 - 916
Time-resolved investigations of plasma and melt ejections in metals by pump-probe shadowgrpahy
Ilja Mingareev
Alexander Horn
OriginalPaper 20 May 2008 Pages: 917 - 920
Plasma plume induced during laser ablation of graphite
J. Hoffman
W. Mróz
Z. Szymanski
OriginalPaper 16 May 2008 Pages: 921 - 926
Expansion of a laser plume from a silicon wafer in a wide range of ambient gas pressures
Alexey N. Volkov
Gerard M. O’Connor
German A. Lukyanov
OriginalPaper 28 May 2008 Pages: 927 - 932
Spectroscopic analysis of a laser-induced NaCl–water plasma. The influence of self-absorption
R. Hannachi
S. Boussaïdi
Zohra Ben Lakhdar
OriginalPaper 20 May 2008 Pages: 933 - 937
Interaction of short laser pulses with metals at moderate intensities
S. I. Anisimov
N. A. Inogamov
P. S. Komarov
OriginalPaper 28 May 2008 Pages: 939 - 943
Laser pulse transient method for measuring the normal spectral emissivity of samples with arbitrary surface quality
A. Jeromen
I. Grabec
E. Govekar
OriginalPaper 27 May 2008 Pages: 945 - 949
Optical absorption in early stage low temperature laser produced plasma
T. Donnelly
J. G. Lunney
OriginalPaper 31 May 2008 Pages: 951 - 955
KrF pulsed laser ablation of polyimide
V. Oliveira
R. Vilar
OriginalPaper 27 May 2008 Pages: 957 - 961
Subthreshold two-pulse time-delayed laser ionization of Cu
José F. Alcántara
José M. Vadillo
J. Javier Laserna
OriginalPaper 22 May 2008 Pages: 963 - 967
Coupling of desorption and photoionization processes in two-step laser mass spectrometry of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
A. Faccinetto
K. Thomson
C. Focsa
OriginalPaper 28 May 2008 Pages: 969 - 974
Near- and mid-infrared laser radiation interaction with eye tissue
H. Jelínková
J. Pašta
P. Koranda
OriginalPaper 28 May 2008 Pages: 975 - 980
Ablation mechanism of PTFE under 157 nm irradiation
S. R. John
S. C. Langford
J. T. Dickinson
OriginalPaper 28 May 2008 Pages: 981 - 985
Transient 3D/2D simulation of laser-induced ablation of silicon
A. Fell
D. Kray
G. P. Willeke
OriginalPaper 20 May 2008 Pages: 987 - 991
Substrate dependence of ion motion in femtosecond laser ablation cloud observed by planar laser-induced fluorescence
Y. Matsuo
M. Kurata-Nishimura
J. Kawai
OriginalPaper 23 May 2008 Pages: 993 - 997
Nonlinearity and time-resolved studies of ion emission in ultrafast laser ablation of graphite
A. Kaplan
M. Lenner
R. E. Palmer
OriginalPaper 11 June 2008 Pages: 999 - 1004
Influence of the substrate, metal overlayer and lattice neighbors on the focusing properties of colloidal microspheres
Nikita Arnold
OriginalPaper 23 May 2008 Pages: 1005 - 1012
Incubation in the UV irradiation of condensed CHCl₃ solids
Olga Kokkinaki
Savas Georgiou
OriginalPaper 29 May 2008 Pages: 1013 - 1017
Femtosecond laser induced nanostructure formation: self-organization control parameters
Juergen Reif
Olga Varlamova
Florenta Costache
OriginalPaper 06 June 2008 Pages: 1019 - 1024
Observation of negative alkali ions from alkali halides during 248-nm laser irradiation
J. T. Dickinson
OriginalPaper 28 May 2008 Pages: 1025 - 1030
Influence of fast electrical discharge on expansion of laser produced plasma
E. Sterling
C. Pagano
J. G. Lunney
OriginalPaper 03 June 2008 Pages: 1031 - 1035