Lasers in Materials Science

1. Laser Physics for Materials Scientists: A Primer
Richard F. Haglund

2. Material Response to Laser Energy Deposition (Thermal and Hyperthermal Processes)
Juergen Reif

3. Non-Thermal Material Response to Laser Energy Deposition
Wolfgang Kautek, Oskar Armbruster

4. Atomic Movies of Laser-Induced Structural and Phase Transformations from Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Chengping Wu, Eaman T. Karim, Alexey N. Volkov, Leonid V. Zhigilei

5. Continuum Models of Ultrashort Laser–Matter Interaction in Application to Wide-Bandgap Dielectrics
Nadezhda M. Bulgakova, Vladimir P. Zhukov

6. Attosecond Pulses for Atomic and Molecular Physics
Francesca Calegari, Giuseppe Sansone, Mauro Nisoli

7. Laser Interactions for the Synthesis and In Situ Diagnostics of Nanomaterials
David B. Geohegan, Alex A. Puretzky, Mina Yoon, Gyula Eres, Chris Rouleau, Kai Xiao, Jeremy Jackson, Jason Readle, Murari Regmi, Norbert Thonnard, Gerd Duscher, Matt Chisholm, Karren More

8. Laser-Mediated Nanoparticle Synthesis and Self-Assembling
Paolo M. Ossi, Nisha R. Agarwal, Enza Fazio, Fortunato Neri, Sebastiano Trusso

9. Nano-cluster Assembled Films, Produced by Pulsed Laser Deposition, for Catalysis and the Photocatalysis
A. Miotello, N. Patel

10. Multifunctional Oxides Obtained by PLD: Applications as Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials
N. D. Scarisoreanu, Maria Dinescu, F. Craciun

11. Biomaterial Thin Films by Soft Pulsed Laser Technologies for Biomedical Applications
Ion N. Mihailescu, Adriana Bigi, Eniko Gyorgy, Carmen Ristoscu, Felix Sima, Ebru Toksoy Oner

12. MAPLE and MALDI: Theory and Experiments
Anna Paola Caricato

13. Laser Nanofabrication of Soft Matter
Marta Castillejo, Tiberio A. Ezquerra, Mohamed Oujja, Esther Rebollar

14. Industrial Applications of Laser-Material Interactions for Coating Formation
Peter Schaaf, Daniel Höche

15. Ultrafast Laser Micro- and Nano-Processing of Glasses
Koji Sugioka

Nyckelord: Physics, Laser Technology, Photonics, Optical and Electronic Materials, Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films, Nanotechnology and Microengineering, Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films