Abstract
Fast imaging and sensitive spectroscopic investigations of laser ablation plume propagation reveal fundamental collisional phenomena relevant to film growth by pulsed laser/deposition and optimized cluster growth via laser vaporization. This article describes two phenomena. The first involves the splitting of the ablation plume into distinct high and low energy components as a weak shock front forms during ablation into a low-density background gas. The second involves the dynamics of graphite ablation for vacuum deposition of tetrahedrally coordinated amorphous diamond films.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | LEOS Summer Topical Meeting |
State | Published - 1996 |
Event | Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE/LEOS Summer Topical Meeting - Keystone, CO, USA Duration: Aug 5 1996 → Aug 9 1996 |