Laser Processing and Chemistry

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.