Transport in Laser Microfabrication
Fundamentals and Applications

Provides researchers and practitioners with the technical background to understand transport phenomena in laser microfabrication applications.

Costas P. Grigoropoulos (Author)

9780521821728, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 30 July 2009

412 pages, 75 b/w illus.
25.3 x 18 x 2.4 cm, 0.96 kg

Emphasising the fundamentals of transport phenomena, this book provides researchers and practitioners with the technical background they need to understand laser-induced microfabrication and materials processing at small scales. It clarifies the laser/materials coupling mechanisms, and discusses the nanoscale confined laser interactions that constitute powerful tools for top-down nanomanufacturing. In addition to discussing key and emerging applications to modern technology, with particular respect to electronics, advanced topics such as the use of lasers for nanoprocessing and nanomachining, the interaction with polymer materials, nanoparticles and clusters, and the processing of thin films are also covered.

1. Fundamentals of laser energy absorption
2. Lasers and optics
3. Thermal processes in laser materials interactions
4. Desorption at low laser energy densities
5. Dynamics of laser ablation C. Grigoropoulos and S. Mao
6. Ultra-fast laser interactions with materials C. Grigoropoulos and S. Mao
7. Laser processing of thin semiconductor films
8. Laser-induced surface modification
9. Laser processing of organic materials S. Mao
10. Pulsed laser interaction with liquids
11. Laser cleaning of particulate contaminants
12. Laser interactions with nanoparticles
13. Laser-assisted microprocessing
14. Nano-structuring using pulsed laser radiation.

Subject Areas: Mechanics of fluids [TGMF], Materials science [TGM], Mechanical engineering & materials [TG], Optical physics [PHJ]