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Laser Micro-Nano-Manufacturing and 3D Microprinting

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Laser-based micro-to-nanomanufacturing becomes attractive in surface engineering, precising machining and 2D and 3D microprinting. This chapter introduces the fundamental of light-nanomaterial interaction, the size effect and scaling of nanomaterials and the surface plasmonic excitation of nanomaterials. We focus on the unique features of energy and mass transporting at a nanoscale under photonic excitation. For photonic manufacturing, we mainly compare the photothermal effect induced by long pulse (long than 1 picosecond) or continue wave laser to the nonthermal effect induced by an ultrafast pulsed laser (shorter than 1 picoseconds). We review various laser-based processing, such as, photonic reduction, sintering, laser direct writing and laser carbonization. Subsequently we reviewed two kinds of key techniques for micro-to-nanomanufacturing: various micro-to-nano manipulations and nanojoining. On the basis of these reviews, we introduce latest progresses on innovative molecular devices, near-field manufacturing and super-resolution manufacturing.

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This book chapter is partially based on the lectures of Dr. Anming Hu presented at the course of “introduction to micro-to-nanomanufacturing” at the University of Tennessee Knoxville (UTK) for the period of 2014 to 2019. Some materials are modified from the students’ presentations and course exercises. The contribution from all students is therefore recognized. The authors are also grateful to Dr. Seungha Shin (UTK) for numerical simulation and computation simulation, Dr. Jayne Wu (UTK) for ACEK mechanism, and Dr. Feng-yuan Zhang (UTK) for the scaling theory. The cited research work was supported by numerical funds. These supports are also sincerely grateful by the authors.

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  2. College of Electronic and Optical Engineering & College Microelectronics, Nanjing University of Post and Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023, China

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  5. All-Solid-State Energy Storage Materials and Devices Key Laboratory of Hunan Province, College of Information and Electronic Engineering, Hunan City University, Yiyang, 413000, China

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Hu, A. et al. (2020). Introduction to Laser Micro-to-Nano Manufacturing. In: Hu, A. (eds) Laser Micro-Nano-Manufacturing and 3D Microprinting. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 309. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59313-1_1

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