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Study of damage structure formation on aluminum film targets by picosecond soft X-ray laser ablation around threshold region

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We irradiated soft X-ray laser pulses onto aluminum film targets, which were evaporated on silicon and lithium fluoride substrates. After laser irradiation, we observed irradiated surfaces and confirmed damage with nanometer scale-modified structures. These damage structures were the same as those formed on the aluminum bulk surface. In this article, we discuss a possibility of the growth process of damage structures on the Al surface based on the experimental results.

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This work was partly supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), No. 25289244 (2013), from MEXT, Japan and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) Grant 12-02-00947a. This work was also supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) under the JSPS-RAS Joint Research Program (RFBR Grant 14-02-92107).

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  1. National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, 8-1-7, Umemidai, Kizugawa, Kyoto, 619-0215, Japan

    Masahiko Ishino, Noboru Hasegawa, Katsuhiro Mikami, Tetsuya Kawachi & Masaharu Nishikino

  2. Landou Institute for Theoretical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1-A, Akademika Semenova av., Chernogolovka, 142432, Moscow Region, Russia

    Nail A. Inogamov

  3. Nara Women’s University, Kitauoyahigashi, Nara, 630-8506, Japan

    Satoshi Tamotsu

  4. Dukhov Research Institute of Automatics, 22, Sushchevskaya st., Moscow, 127055, Russia

    Vasily V. Zhakhovsky & Igor Yu. Skobelev

  5. Joint Institute for High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 13-2, Izhorskaya Street, Moscow, 125412, Russia

    Anatoly Ya. Faenov & Tatiana A. Pikuz

  6. Osaka University, 1-1, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan

    Anatoly Ya. Faenov & Tatiana A. Pikuz

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Ishino, M., Inogamov, N.A., Tamotsu, S. et al. Study of damage structure formation on aluminum film targets by picosecond soft X-ray laser ablation around threshold region. Appl. Phys. A 124, 649 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-018-2072-9

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