Laser Processing and Chemistry

Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Dieter Bäuerle, Universität Linz, Institut für Angewandte Physik.

Part I Overview and Fundamentals: Introduction.- Thermal, Photophysical, and Photochemical Processes.- Reaction Kinetics and Transport of Species.- Nucleation and Cluster Formation.- Lasers, Experimental Aspects, Spatial Confinement.- Part II Temperature Distributions and Surface Melting: General Solutions of the Heat Equations.- Semi-infinite Substrates.- Infinite Slabs.- Non-uniform Media.- Surface Melting.- Part III Material Removal: Vaporization, Plasma Formation.- Nanosecond-Laser Ablation.- Ultrashort-Pulse Laser Ablation.- Etching of Metals and Insulators.- Etching of Semiconductors.- Part IV Material Deposition: Laser-CVD of Microstructures.- Growth of Fibers.- Direct Writing.- Thin-Film Formation by Laser-CVD.- Adsorbed Layers, Laser-MBE.- Liquid-Phase Deposition, Electroplating.- Thin-Film Formation by Pulsed-Laser Deposition and Laser-Induced Evaporation.- Part V Material Transformations, Synthesis and Structure Formation: Material Transformations, Laser Cleaning.- Doping.- Cladding, Alloying, and Synthesis.- Oxidation, Nitridation, and Reduction.- Transformation and Functionalization of Organic Materials.- Instabilities and Structure Formation.- Part VI Diagnostic Techniques, Plasmas: Diagnostic Techniques.- Analysis of Species and Plasmas,- Part VII Lasers in Medicine, Biotechnology and Arts: Lasers in Medicine and Biotechnology.- Restoration and Conservation of Artworks.

From reviews of the 3rd edition:
".. In the present edition, some of the most fascinating new developments in the field have been included. Among those are investigations with ultrashort laser pulses, the fabrication of nanoclusters and nanocrystalline films, the synthesis of metastable materials, structural and chemical modificiations of surfaces, etc. More attention is also given to fields of practical interest such as three-dimensional microfabrication, laser cleaning, polishing, and lithography. The book can be used by the experts in the field as a reference source and by the students and beginners in the field as a textbook."
K.M. Salikhov, Applied Magnetic Resonance 2000/19/2