Keratin film ablation for the fabrication of brick and mortar skin structure using femtosecond laser pulses

Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1415-1425

  Haq, Bibi Safia ^a,b   Khan, Hidayat Ullah ^a   Dou, Yuehua ^b   Alam, Khan ^a   Attaullah, Shehnaz ^a   Zari, Islam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PESHAWAR   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; BRICK; EXCIMER LASERS; FABRICATION; KERATIN; LASER ABLATION; LASER PULSES; MORTAR; SKIN; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

ABLATION THRESHOLDS; ARF EXCIMER LASER; FEMTOSECOND LASER SYSTEM; FILM ABLATION; LASER PROCESS; SKIN STRUCTURE; SKIN SURFACES; WALL STRUCTURE;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 84939168103     PISSN: 09478396     EISSN: 14320630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00339-015-9327-5     Document Type: Article

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