Short laser pulse nanostructuring of metals: Direct comparison of molecular dynamics modeling and experiment

Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 675-687

  Ivanov, D S ^a,d   Kuznetsov, A I ^b,c   Lipp, V P ^a,d   Rethfeld, B ^a   Chichkov, B N ^b   Garcia, M E ^d   Schulz, W ^e  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^b LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

^c DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^e FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR LASER TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CONTINUUM DESCRIPTION; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS MODELING; NANOPARTICLE STRUCTURES; NONEQUILIBRIUM STATE; SURFACE NANOSTRUCTURING;

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 84878114693     PISSN: 09478396     EISSN: 14320630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00339-013-7656-9     Document Type: Article

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