Excimer laser ablation of thin gold films on a quartz crystal microbalance at various argon background pressures

Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 545-552

  Zhang, X ^a   Chu, S S ^a   Ho, J R ^a   Grigoropoulos, C P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; EXCIMER LASERS; GOLD; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PHENOMENA; THIN FILMS; VAPORIZATION;

ATOMIC VAPORIZATION; HYDRODYNAMIC ABLATION; QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCE; SURFACE VAPORIZATION MODEL; THIN GOLD FILMS;

LASER ABLATION;

EID: 0031162808     PISSN: 09478396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003390050514     Document Type: Article

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