Laser Precision Microfabrication

✍ Scribed by Henry Helvajian (auth.), Koji Sugioka, Michel Meunier, Alberto Piqué (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 361
• Series: Springer Series in Materials Science 135
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Miniaturization and high precision are rapidly becoming a requirement for many industrial processes and products. As a result, there is greater interest in the use of laser microfabrication technology to achieve these goals. This book composed of 16 chapters covers all the topics of laser precision processing from fundamental aspects to industrial applications to both inorganic and biological materials. It reviews the sate of the art of research and technological development in the area of laser processing.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Process Control in Laser Material Processing for the Micro and Nanometer Scale Domains....Pages 1-34
Theory and Simulation of Laser Ablation – from Basic Mechanisms to Applications....Pages 35-61
Laser Devices and Optical Systems for Laser Precision Microfabrication....Pages 63-89
Fundamentals of Laser-Material Interaction and Application to Multiscale Surface Modification....Pages 91-120
Temporal Pulse Tailoring in Ultrafast Laser Manufacturing Technologies....Pages 121-144
Laser Nanosurgery, Manipulation, and Transportation of Cells and Tissues....Pages 145-161
Laser Synthesis of Nanomaterials....Pages 163-187
Ultrafast Laser Micro- and Nanostructuring....Pages 189-213
3D Fabrication of Embedded Microcomponents....Pages 215-238
Micromachining and Patterning....Pages 239-257
Laser Transfer Techniques for Digital Microfabrication....Pages 259-291
Hybrid Laser Processing of Transparent Materials....Pages 293-310
Drilling, Cutting, Welding, Marking and Microforming....Pages 311-335
Back Matter....Pages 337-344

✦ Subjects

Laser Technology, Photonics;Nanotechnology