Non-thermal ablation of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene with an intense femtosecond-pulse laser

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 13116-13121

  Hashida, M ^a   Mishima, H ^b   Tokita, S ^a   Sakabe, S ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DISSOCIATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; EXCITATION ENERGY; IONS; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENES; THERMAL EXPANSION;

ABLATION THRESHOLDS; COULOMB EXPLOSION; EXPANDED POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; FEMTOSECOND PULSE LASER; HIGH-ENERGY IONS; LASER-MATTER INTERACTIONS; POROUS STRUCTURES; THERMAL DISSOCIATION;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CARBON; ION; POLITEF; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS; PHYSICS; POROSITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CARBON; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IONS; LASERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHYSICS; POLYMERS; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; POROSITY;

EID: 67749118123     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.013116     Document Type: Article

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