Self-organized tungsten nanospikes grown on subwavelength ripples induced by femtosecond laser pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 15741-15746

  Zhao, Quan Zhong ^a   Malzer, Stefan ^a   Wang, Li Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TUNGSTEN; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

IRRADIATED SURFACE; NANOSPIKES; RIPPLE STRUCTURES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 36749080942     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.015741     Document Type: Article

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