Dynamics of pulsed laser ablation for thin film growth

David B. Geohegan, Alexander A. Puretzky

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2
Number of pages2
JournalLEOS Summer Topical Meeting
StatePublished - 1996
EventProceedings of the 1996 IEEE/LEOS Summer Topical Meeting - Keystone, CO, USA
Duration: Aug 5 1996Aug 9 1996

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