Laser-Assisted Fabrication of Materials

1. Introduction to Laser
Assisted Fabrication of Materials
Jyotsna Dutta Majumdar, Indranil Manna

2. High Power Lasers in Material Processing Applications: An Overview of Recent Developments
A. K. Nath

3. Laser
Assisted Machining
: Current Status and Future Scope
M. Brandt, S. Sun

4. Laser
-Based Joining of Metallic and Non-metallic Materials
G. Padmanabham, B. Shanmugarajan

5. Direct Laser Cladding
, Current Status and Future Scope of Application
A. Weisheit, A. Gasser, G. Backes, T. Jambor, N. Pirch, K. Wissenbach

6. An Introduction to Laser Assisted Microfabrication,
Current Status and Future Scope of Application
A. Ostendorf

7. Laser Surface Processing of Polymers for Biomedical Applications
David Waugh, Jonathan Lawrence

8. Laser
Micro and Nano Processing of Metals
, Ceramics
, and Polymers

Wilhelm Pfleging, Robert Kohler, Isabelle Südmeyer, Magnus Rohde

9. Temperature Monitoring by Optical Methods in Laser Processing
I. Smurov, M. Doubenskaia

10. Emerging Laser
Materials Processing Techniques for Future Industrial Applications
L. M. Kukreja, R. Kaul, C. P. Paul, P. Ganesh, B. T. Rao

Keywords: Physics, Laser Technology, Photonics, Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering, Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films, Applied and Technical Physics, Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction, Optical and Electronic Materials