Laser-induced growth of titanium nitride microcolumns on biased titanium targets

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 62-67

  Gyorgy E ^a,b   Perez del Pino A ^a   Serra, P ^a   Morenza, J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC PHYSICS   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER PULSES; MORPHOLOGY; NEODYMIUM LASERS; NITROGEN; PROFILOMETRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

TITANIUM NITRIDE MICROCOLUMNS; TITANIUM TARGETS;

TITANIUM NITRIDE;

EID: 22144442746     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/JMR.2005.0021     Document Type: Article

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