Optical transmission and laser structuring of silicon membranes

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 15308-15317

  Juodkazis, Saulius ^a   Nishi, Yasufumi ^a   Misawa, Hiroaki ^a   Mizeikis, Vygantas ^b   Schecker, Olivier ^c   Waitz, Reimar ^c   Leiderer, Paul ^c   Scheer, Elke ^c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; AMORPHOUS SILICON; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; MEMBRANES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; LASER MICROSTRUCTURING; LASER STRUCTURING; NONLINEAR PROPERTIES; OPTICAL MODIFICATIONS; REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION; THERMALLY GROWN OXIDE; TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATIONS;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

GLASS FIBER; MICROSPHERE; SILICON;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; MICROFLUIDICS; OPTICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR;

COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASERS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSPHERES; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SEMICONDUCTORS; SILICON;

EID: 69049088820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.015308     Document Type: Article

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