Study of silicon nanofibrous structure formed by femtosecond laser irradiation in air

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 13869-13874

  Sivakumar, Manickam ^a   Venkatakrishnan, Krishnan ^a   Tan, Bo ^a   Venkataramanan, Venkat ^b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMTOSECOND LASERS; LASER PULSES; SILICON;

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; CONFINEMENT MODEL; FIBROUS STRUCTURES; PHONON CONFINEMENT MODEL; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCIES; REPETITION FREQUENCY; SILICON NANOPARTICLES; STRUCTURE FORMATIONS;

NANOFIBERS;

NANOTUBE; SILICON;

AIR; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

AIR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASERS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOTUBES; PARTICLE SIZE; SILICON;

EID: 68349127201     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.013869     Document Type: Article

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