Ejection regimes in picosecond laser-induced forward transfer of metals

Physical Review Applied

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Pohl, Ralph ^a   Visser, Claas Willem ^a   Römer, Gert Willem ^a   Lohse, Detlef ^a   Sun, Chao ^a   Huis in 'T Veld, Bert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; DROPS; MASS TRANSFER; METALLIC FILMS; PICOSECOND LASERS; VISUALIZATION;

DIRECT-WRITE METHODS; EJECTION VELOCITY; FLUENCE THRESHOLDS; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; LASER-INDUCED FORWARD TRANSFER; LASER-INDUCED HEATING; THRESHOLD FLUENCES; TWO TEMPERATURE MODEL;

METALS;

EID: 84929375394     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23317019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.3.024001     Document Type: Article

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