Laser Processing of Materials: Fundamentals, Applications and Developments

✍ Scribed by Peter Schaaf (auth.), Peter Schaaf (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Series: Springer Series in Materials Science 139
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Laser materials processing has made tremendous progress and is now at the forefront of industrial and medical applications. The book describes recent advances in smart and nanoscaled materials going well beyond the traditional cutting and welding applications. As no analytical methods are described the examples are really going into the details of what nowadways is possible by employing lasers for sophisticated materials processing giving rise to achievements not possible by conventional materials processing.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Basics of Lasers and Laser Optics....Pages 5-20
Fundamentals of Laser-Material Interactions....Pages 21-47
Laser–Plasma Interactions....Pages 49-88
Laser Ablation and Thin Film Deposition....Pages 89-112
Processing with Ultrashort Laser Pulses....Pages 113-129
Creating Nanostructures with Lasers....Pages 131-167
Laser Micromachining....Pages 169-187
Laser Processing Architecture for Improved Material Processing....Pages 189-224
Back Matter....Pages 225-231

✦ Subjects

Laser Technology, Photonics;Nanotechnology;Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices;Engineering, general;Optical and Electronic Materials