Advances in the Application of Lasers in Materials Science

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The book covers recent advances and progress in understanding both the fundamental science of lasers interactions in materials science, as well as a special emphasis on emerging applications enabled by the irradiation of materials by pulsed laser systems. The different chapters illustrate how, by careful control of the processing conditions, laser irradiation can result in efficient material synthesis, characterization, and fabrication at various length scales from atomically-thin 2D materials to microstructured periodic surface structures. This book serves as an excellent resource for all who employ lasers in materials science, spanning such different disciplines as photonics, photovoltaics, and sensing, to biomedical applications. Front Matter ....Pages i-xix Laser Synthesis, Processing, and Spectroscopy of Atomically-Thin Two Dimensional Materials (David B. Geohegan, Alex A. Puretzky, Aziz Boulesbaa, Gerd Duscher, Gyula Eres, Xufan Li et al.)....Pages 1-37 The Role of Defects in Pulsed Laser Matter Interaction (Oskar Armbruster, Aida Naghilou, Wolfgang Kautek)....Pages 39-61 Surface Functionalization by Laser-Induced Structuring (Juergen Reif)....Pages 63-88 Laser-Inducing Extreme Thermodynamic Conditions in Condensed Matter to Produce Nanomaterials for Catalysis and the Photocatalysis (Alberto Mazzi, Michele Orlandi, Nainesh Patel, Antonio Miotello)....Pages 89-106 Insights into Laser-Materials Interaction Through Modeling on Atomic and Macroscopic Scales (Maxim V. Shugaev, Miao He, Sergey A. Lizunov, Yoann Levy, Thibault J.-Y. Derrien, Vladimir P. Zhukov et al.)....Pages 107-148 Ultrafast Laser Micro and Nano Processing of Transparent Materials—From Fundamentals to Applications (Manoj Kumar Bhuyan, Koji Sugioka)....Pages 149-190 Molecular Orbital Tomography Based on High-Order Harmonic Generation: Principles and Perspectives (Anna Gabriella Ciriolo, Michele Devetta, Davide Faccialà, Prabhash Prasannan Geetha, Aditya Pusala, Caterina Vozzi et al.)....Pages 191-216 Laser Ablation Propulsion and Its Applications in Space (Claude R. Phipps)....Pages 217-246 Laser Structuring of Soft Materials: Laser-Induced Forward Transfer and Two-Photon Polymerization (Flavian Stokker-Cheregi, Alexandra Palla-Papavlu, Irina Alexandra Paun, Thomas Lippert, Maria Dinescu)....Pages 247-273 UV- and RIR-MAPLE: Fundamentals and Applications (Anna Paola Caricato, Wangyao Ge, Adrienne D. Stiff-Roberts)....Pages 275-308 Combinatorial Laser Synthesis of Biomaterial Thin Films: Selection and Processing for Medical Applications (Emanuel Axente, Carmen Ristoscu, Adriana Bigi, Felix Sima, Ion N. Mihailescu)....Pages 309-338 Laser Synthesized Nanoparticles for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (Matteo Tommasini, Chiara Zanchi, Andrea Lucotti, Enza Fazio, Marco Santoro, Salvatore Spadaro et al.)....Pages 339-360 Nonlinear Optics in Laser Ablation Plasmas (Mohamed Oujja, Mikel Sanz, Rebeca de Nalda, Marta Castillejo)....Pages 361-385 Back Matter ....Pages 387-395