Nanomodification of gold surface by picosecond soft x-ray laser pulse

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Norman, Genri ^a,b   Starikov, Sergey ^a,b   Stegailov, Vladimir ^a,b   Fortov, Vladimir ^a,b   Skobelev, Igor ^a   Pikuz, Tatyana ^a,c   Faenov, Anatoly ^a,c   Tamotsu, Sataoshi ^d   Kato, Yoshiaki ^e   Ishino, Masahiko ^c   Tanaka, Momoko ^c   Hasegawa, Noboru ^c   Nishikino, Masaharu ^c   Ohba, Toshiuki ^c   Kaihori, Takeshi ^c   Ochi, Yoshihiro ^c   Imazono, Takashi ^c   Fukuda, Yuji ^c   Kando, Masaki ^c   Kawachi, Tetsuya ^c  

^a JOINT INSTITUTE FOR HIGH TEMPERATURES   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e GRADUATE SCHOOL FOR THE CREATION OF NEW PHOTONICS INDUSTRIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION DEPTH; ABLATION PROCESS; ATOMISTIC MODELS; ELECTRON IONS; ELECTRON PRESSURES; ENERGY RELAXATION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLUENCES; GOLD SURFACES; LOW THRESHOLDS; NANO-METER-SCALE; NANO-STRUCTURING; PICOSECONDS; SINGLE PULSE; SOFT X-RAY; SOFT X-RAY LASER; VISIBLE LASERS;

ABLATION; GOLD;

X RAYS;

EID: 84864130512     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4731752     Document Type: Article

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