Femtosecond-Laser-Induced Periodic Self-Organized Nanostructures

Comprehensive Nanoscience and Technology

Volumn 1-5, Issue , 2011, Pages 277-314

  Her, T H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Defects; Femtosecond laser material processing; Incubation; Instability; Laser ablation; Laser deposition; Nanoscale pattern formation; Nanostructures; Nonlinear ionization; Periodic structures; Plasma; Ripples; Self assembly; Self organization; Spatiotemporal ordering

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015983705     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374396-1.00130-6     Document Type: Chapter

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