Formation of amorphous sapphire by a femtosecond laser pulse induced micro-explosion

Applied Surface Science

Volumn 255, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 9745-9749

  Mizeikis, Vygantas ^a   Kimura, Shigeru ^b,c   Surovtsev, Nikolay V ^d   Jarutis, Vygandas ^e   Saito, Akira ^f   Misawa, Hiroaki ^a   Juodkazis, Saulius ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION AND ELECTROMETRY   (Russian Federation)

^e VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^f OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Laser nano fabrication; Phase transitions; Sapphire; Shock waves; Synchrotron X rays

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; ALUMINUM OXIDE; FEMTOSECOND LASERS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SAPPHIRE; SHOCK WAVES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

AMORPHOUS REGIONS; CRYSTALLINE PHASE; FOCUSED FEMTOSECOND LASERS; MICRO X-RAY-DIFFRACTION; MODIFIED MATERIALS; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION; SYNCHROTRON X RAYS; VOID STRUCTURES;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 70349466454     PISSN: 01694332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2009.04.063     Document Type: Article

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