Porous nanostructured layers on germanium produced by laser optical breakdown processing

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4977, Issue , 2003, Pages 632-638

  Kabashin, A V ^a   Pilon Marien, V G ^a   Yang, D Q ^a   Magny, F ^a   Meunier, M ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air optical breakdown; Laser assisted patterning; Nanostructured Ge; Visible photoluminescence

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE LASERS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; IRRADIATION; MORPHOLOGY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; POROUS MATERIALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTING GERMANIUM; SEMICONDUCTING GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; SURFACE TREATMENT; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

AIR OPTICAL BREAKDOWN PROCESSING; LASER ASSISTED PATTERNING; VISIBLE PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0344861933     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.478574     Document Type: Conference Paper

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