Journal article
Nanosecond laser ablation and deposition of silver, copper, zinc and tin
Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark1
Optical Microsensors and Micromaterials, Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark2
Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark3
Electrofunctional materials, Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark4
Nanosecond pulsed laser deposition of different metals (Ag, Cu, Sn, Zn) has been studied in high vacuum at a laser wavelength of 355 nm and pulse length of 6 ns. The deposition rate is roughly similar for Sn, Cu and Ag, which have comparable cohesive energies, and much higher for the deposition of Zn which has a low cohesive energy.
The deposition rate for all metals is strongly correlated with the total ablation yield, i.e., the total mass ablated per pulse, reported in the literature except for Sn, for which the deposition rate is low, but the total ablation yield is high. This may be explained by the continuous erosion by nanoparticles during deposition of the Sn films which appear to have a much rougher surface than those of the other metals studied in the present work.
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
Year: | 2014 |
Pages: | 89-92 |
Journal subtitle: | Materials Science and Processing |
ISSN: | 14320630 and 09478396 |
Types: | Journal article |
DOI: | 10.1007/s00339-013-8207-0 |
ORCIDs: | Ettlinger, Rebecca Bolt , Canulescu, Stela , Schou, Jørgen and Pryds, Nini |
Ablation Yield Characterization and Evaluation of Materials Cohesive Energy Condensed Matter Physics Deposition Rate Laser Fluence Nanotechnology Operating Procedures, Materials Treatment Optical and Electronic Materials Physics Physics and Astronomy Quartz Crystal Microbalance Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films