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History, Scope, and the Future of Laser Ablation

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Laser Ablation

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The study of the interaction of high-power lasers with solid matter is as old as the laser itself. Variously termed laser ablation, vaporization, sputtering, desorption, spallation or etching, the physical processes involved are extremely complex. Electromagnetic energy is converted to electronic, thermal, chemical and mechanical energy at the solid surface. The ejected material may include neutral atoms and molecules, positive and negative ions, clusters, electrons and photons. The generated plasmas may have electron temperatures of thousands of degrees. Of necessity a multidisciplinary problem, the mechanism of laser ablation is still being studied and debated.

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Miller, J.C. (1994). History, Scope, and the Future of Laser Ablation. In: Miller, J.C. (eds) Laser Ablation. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 28. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78720-1_1

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