Laser processing and chemistry / Dieter Bauerle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bauerle, Dieter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lasers--Industrial applications.

Lasers.

Surfaces (Technology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (845 p.)

Edition:

4th ed.

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg : Springer, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book gives an overview of the fundamentals and applications of laser-matter interactions, in particular with regard to laser material processing. Special attention is given to laser-induced physical and chemical processes at gas-solid, liquid-solid, and solid-solid interfaces. Starting with the background physics, the book proceeds to examine applications of lasers in “standard” laser machining and laser chemical processing (LCP), including the patterning, coating, and modification of material surfaces. This fourth edition has been enlarged to cover the rapid advances in the understanding of the dynamics of materials under the action of ultrashort laser pulses, and to include a number of new topics, in particular the increasing importance of lasers in various different fields of surface functionalizations and nanotechnology. In two additional chapters, recent developments in biotechnology, medicine, art conservation and restoration are summarized. Graduate students, physicists, chemists, engineers, and manufacturers alike will find this book an invaluable reference work on laser processing.

Contents:

pt. 1. Overview and fundamentals

pt. 2. Temperature distributions and surface melting

pt. 3. Material removal

pt. 4. Material deposition

pt. 5. Material transformations, synthesis and structure formation

pt. 6. Diagnostic techniques, plasmas

pt. 7. Lasers in medicine, biotechnology and arts.

Notes:

"With 332 figures."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-36841-2

9786613368416

3-642-17613-5

OCLC:

763157502