Lasers in Materials Science

✍ Scribed by Richard F. Haglund (auth.), Marta Castillejo, Paolo M. Ossi, Leonid Zhigilei (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 396
• Series: Springer Series in Materials Science 191
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book covers various aspects of lasers in materials science, including a comprehensive overview on basic principles of laser-materials interactions and applications enabled by pulsed laser systems. The material is organized in a coherent way, providing the reader with a harmonic architecture.
While systematically covering the major current and emerging areas of lasers processing applications, the Volume provides examples of targeted modification of material properties achieved through careful control of the processing conditions and laser irradiation parameters. Special emphasis is placed on specific strategies aimed at nanoscale control of material structure and properties to match the stringent requirements of modern applications. Laser fabrication of novel nanomaterials, which expands to the domains of photonics, photovoltaics, sensing, and biomedical applications, is also discussed in the Volume. This book assembles chapters based on lectures delivered at the Venice International School on Lasers in Materials Science which was held in Isola di San Servolo, Venice, Italy, in July, 2012.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Laser Physics for Materials Scientists: A Primer....Pages 1-28
Material Response to Laser Energy Deposition (Thermal and Hyperthermal Processes)....Pages 29-41
Non-Thermal Material Response to Laser Energy Deposition....Pages 43-66
Atomic Movies of Laser-Induced Structural and Phase Transformations from Molecular Dynamics Simulations....Pages 67-100
Continuum Models of Ultrashort Laser–Matter Interaction in Application to Wide-Bandgap Dielectrics....Pages 101-124
Attosecond Pulses for Atomic and Molecular Physics....Pages 125-141
Laser Interactions for the Synthesis and In Situ Diagnostics of Nanomaterials....Pages 143-173
Laser-Mediated Nanoparticle Synthesis and Self-Assembling....Pages 175-212
Nano-cluster Assembled Films, Produced by Pulsed Laser Deposition, for Catalysis and the Photocatalysis....Pages 213-225
Multifunctional Oxides Obtained by PLD: Applications as Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials....Pages 227-269
Biomaterial Thin Films by Soft Pulsed Laser Technologies for Biomedical Applications....Pages 271-294
MAPLE and MALDI: Theory and Experiments....Pages 295-323
Laser Nanofabrication of Soft Matter....Pages 325-344
Industrial Applications of Laser-Material Interactions for Coating Formation....Pages 345-357
Ultrafast Laser Micro- and Nano-Processing of Glasses....Pages 359-380
Erratum to: Continuum Models of Ultrashort Laser–Matter Interaction in Application to Wide-Bandgap Dielectrics....Pages E1-E4
Back Matter....Pages 381-387

✦ Subjects

Laser Technology, Photonics; Optical and Electronic Materials; Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films; Nanotechnology and Microengineering; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films