Interfaces Under Laser Irradiation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-7

   PDF

2. Electronic Structure at Semiconductor Surfaces and Interfaces

   • G. Allan

   Pages 9-26

3. Molecule-Surface Interaction: Vibrational Excitations

   • G. Benedek

   Pages 27-39

4. Melting and Surfaces

   • G. Fritsch

   Pages 41-53

5. Short-Pulse Surface Interactions

   • D. Hulin

   Pages 55-65

6. Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions

   • G. Dewel

   Pages 67-80

7. Dislocation Microstructures in Nonequilibrium Materials

   • D. Walgraef

   Pages 81-104

8. Transport Properties of Laser-Generated Non-Equilibrium Plasmas in Semiconductors

   • Henry M. Van Driel

   Pages 105-126

9. Nonequilibrium Phases and Phase Transitions in the Surface Melt Morphology of Laser Irradiated Silicon

   • J. S. Preston, J. E. Sipe, H. M. Van Driel

   Pages 127-136

10. Adsorption, Desorption, and Surface Reactions

    • H. P. Bonzel

    Pages 137-164

11. Theory of Spectroscopy and Dynamics in Laser-Irradiated Adspecies-Surface Systems

    • Thomas F. George, Daniel Jelski, Xi-Yi Huang, A. C. Beri

    Pages 165-183

12. Monte Carlo Simulations of Surface Reactions

    • Martine Dumont, R. Dagonnier

    Pages 185-213

13. Mechanisms of Laser-Induced Desorption from Insulators and Compound Semiconductors

    • Noriaki Itoh

    Pages 215-233

14. Gas-Surface Interactions Stimulated by Laser Radiation: Bases and Applications

    • T. J. Chuang

    Pages 235-253

15. Photochemistry of Transition Metal Complexes

    • H. Schröder, B. Rager, S. Metev, N. Rösch, H. Jörg

    Pages 255-276

16. Kinetics of Laser-Induced Pyrolytic Chemical Processes and the Problem of Temperature Measurements

    • J. Doppelbauer, D. Bäuerle

    Pages 277-297

17. Diffusion in Liquids

    • F. P. Ricci, D. Rocca

    Pages 299-299

18. The Solid-Solid Interface under Laser-Irradiation

    • L. D. Laude

    Pages 301-325

19. Photoelectrochemistry with Particulate Semiconductors and Electrodes

    • M. Grätzel

    Pages 327-347

20. Laser Enhanced Electroplating

    • M. H. Gelchinski, R. J. von Gutfeld, L. T. Romankiw

    Pages 349-358

Known and developed over the past twenty five years, lasers have been experimented in a variety of processes with an uneven success. Apart from fundamental physics experiments in which the various aspects of coherence are systematically exploited, applications in the field of Materials Science have been scattered recently over so many situations that it is apparently difficult today to conceive a comprehensive interpretation of all physical processes encountered. In some domains of research like photochemistry, development has been fast and rather self-supporting. In others, like solid-state processing, progress has been either very specific or deviated towards marginal applications, or else emerged as a joint-venture between physicists and chemists. This yielded a number of professional meetings, where day-to-day research activities are presented. In 1982, the Cargese ASI on "Cohesive properties of semiconductors under laser irradiation" was one of such meetings at which a prospective of the field was discussed at length in ebullient round-table sessions. Quoted from the proceedings, "the Institute helped to discern clearly the limits of existing theoretical approaches and the directions along which work is urgently needed within the next few years". Four years have passed and the field has literally explo­ ded. It must be mentioned that some of the most striking developments over the past two years were accurately predicted at the Institute in Cargese.

• liquid
• polymer
• polymers
• semiconductors
• spectroscopy

• Faculté des Sciences, Université de l’Etat, Mons, Belgium

  L. D. Laude, M. Wautelet

• Angewandte Physik, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Linz, Austria

  D. Bäuerle

Policies and ethics