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Picosecond-laser-induced structural modifications in the bulk of single-crystal diamond

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Arrays of through laser-graphitized microstructures have been fabricated in type IIa single-crystal 1.2-mm-thick diamond plates by multipulse laser irradiation with 10-ps pulses at λ=532 nm wavelength. Raman and photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy studies of the bulk microstructures have evidenced the diamond transformation to amorphous carbon and graphitic phases and the formation of radiation defects pronounced in the PL spectra as the self-interstitial related center, the 3H center, at 504 nm. It is found that the ultrafast-laser-induced structural modifications in the bulk of single-crystal diamond plates occur along {111} planes, known as the planes of the lowest cleavage energy and strength in diamond.

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  1. Natural Sciences Center, Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    Sergei M. Pimenov, Igor I. Vlasov & Andrey A. Khomich

  2. Bern University of Applied Sciences, Engineering & Information Technology, Burgdorf, 3400, Switzerland

    Beat Neuenschwander, Martin Muralt & Valerio Romano

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Still image from the video of the real-time growth of a microstructure through a 1.2-mm-thick diamond plate under irradiation at E=7 μJ, f=10 kHz and V z =100 μm/s (TIF 502 kB)

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Pimenov, S.M., Vlasov, I.I., Khomich, A.A. et al. Picosecond-laser-induced structural modifications in the bulk of single-crystal diamond. Appl. Phys. A 105, 673–677 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-011-6645-0

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