Nanoscale surface and subsurface defects induced in lithium niobate by a femtosecond laser

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 4420-4422

  Stach, Eric A ^a   Radmilovic, Velimir ^a   Deshpande, Devesh ^b   Malshe, Ajay ^b   Alexander, Dennis ^c   Doerr, David ^c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b 3202 Bell Engineering Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL DEFECTS; LASER ABLATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; LITHIUM NIOBATE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; QUENCHING; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SHOCK WAVES; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SURFACES; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

FEMTOSECOND LASER; THERMAL SHOCK;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES;

EID: 0346215981     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1629797     Document Type: Article

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