UV Lasers: Effects and Applications in Materials Science
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 10/3/1996
EAN 9780521464987, ISBN10: 0521464986
Hardcover, 420 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 2.4 cm
Language: English
This 1996 volume provided the first comprehensive overview of the use of ultraviolet laser radiation in the processing of materials. Lasers operating at ultraviolet wavelengths combine the ability to vaporise the most refractory of materials with the precision to ablate micron-sized holes in polymers and remove thin layers from the cornea for corrective surgery of the human eye. This book explores the use of UV laser radiation for the ablation and deposition of metals, insulating solids, polymers, semiconductors and superconductors. Emphasis has been placed on understanding the physical mechanisms accompanying these processes and the conversion of intense UV radiation to photothermal and photochemical energy in irradiated materials. This will be an invaluable source-book of current information in the rapidly developing field of laser applications for engineers, scientists, researchers and students in universities, government laboratories and the private sector, and will also form a valuable supplementary text for graduate courses in materials science.
1. UV lasers
2. Optical properties of materials at UV wavelengths
3. Photochemical and photothermal effects
4. Interaction of UV laser radiation with metals
5. Interaction of UV radiation with organic polymers
6. Interactions and material removal in inorganic insulators
7. UV laser preparation and etching of superconductors
8. Interactions and effects in semiconductors
9. Laser deposition
Index.