Femtosecond laser ablation of gallium arsenide investigated with time-of-flight mass spectroscopy

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 72, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 2385-2387

  Cavalleri, A ^a,b   Sokolowski Tinten, K ^a   Bialkowski, J ^a   Von Der Linde, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS; LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY;

FEMTOSECOND LASER ABLATION; KNUDSEN LAYER THEORY; QUADRUPOLE MASS SPECTROMETER; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROSCOPY;

LASER ABLATION;

EID: 0032073754     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.121364     Document Type: Article

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