Pillars formed by laser ablation and modified by wet etching

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6586, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Kolasinski, Kurt W ^a   Dudley, Margaret E ^a   Nayak, Barada K ^b   Gupta, Mool C ^b  

^a WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Etching; Germanium; Laser ablation; Macropores; Microstructure; Nanostructure; Pillar; Porous silicon; Reflectivity; Silicon

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GERMANIUM; LASER ABLATION; POROUS SILICON; SOLIDIFICATION; TEXTURING; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WET ETCHING;

PILLARS; SURFACE TEXTURING; TRANSPARENT MATERIALS;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 36049004604     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.724413     Document Type: Conference Paper

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