Laser induced forward transfer of metals by temporally shaped femtosecond laser pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 11300-11309

  Klini, A ^a,b   Loukakos, P A ^a   Gray, D ^a   Manousaki, A ^a   Fotakis, C ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRONS; ENERGY TRANSFER; GOLD DEPOSITS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MASS TRANSFER; METALS; MORPHOLOGY; PHONONS; PULSE SHAPING; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

ELECTRON PHONON SCATTERING; ELECTRON THERMALIZATION; ELECTRON-LATTICE COUPLING; ENERGY TRANSFER PROCESS; LASER-INDUCED FORWARD TRANSFER; LIQUID CRYSTAL SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; MORPHOLOGY AND SIZE; PUMP-PROBE EXPERIMENTS;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PROPERTY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT; METALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 47849131157     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.011300     Document Type: Article

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