Lasers in Materials Science

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Castillejo, Marta (Editor), Ossi, Paolo M. (Editor), Zhigilei, Leonid (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Springer Series in Materials Science, 191
• Subjects: Physics.; Surfaces (Physics).; Interfaces (Physical sciences).; Thin films.; Lasers.; Photonics.; Nanotechnology.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Materials > Surfaces.; Laser Technology, Photonics.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films.; Nanotechnology and Microengineering.; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.

This book covers various aspects of lasers in materials science, including a comprehensive overview on basic principles of laser-materials interactions and applications enabled by pulsed laser systems.  The material is organized in a coherent way, providing the reader with a harmonic architecture. W...

Table of Contents:

• From the Contents: Laser Physics for Materials Scientists: A Primer
• Material Response to Laser Energy Deposition (Thermal and Hyper thermal Processes)
• Non-Thermal Material Response to Laser Energy Deposition
• Atomic Movies of Laser-Induced Structural and Phase Transformations from Molecular Dynamics Simulations.