Laser-Assisted Microtechnology deals with laser applications to a wide variety of problems
in microelectronic design and fabrication. It covers micromachining of thin films …

Laser-Beam Interactions with Materials treats, from a physicist's point of view, the wide
variety of processes that lasers can induce in materials. Physical phenomena ranging from …

Direct-Write Technologies covers applications, materials, and the techniques in using direct-
write technologies. This book provides an overview of the different direct write techniques …

Laser Annealing of Semiconductors deals with the materials science of surfaces that have
been subjected to ultrafast heating by intense laser or electron beams. This book is …

Direct experimental measurements of the melt-in, resolidification, and amorphization
velocities for pulsed (2.5 to 10 ns) uv and ruby-laser irradiation have been made on< 100> …

Laser alloying is a material-processing method which utilizes the high power density
available from focused laser sources to melt metal coatings and a portion of the underlying …

The annealing of semiconductors is of critical importance for successful electronic device
fabrication. The present review surveys the new field of transient annealing and covers all …

Materials processing with lasers is a rapidly expanding field which is increasingly
captivating the attention of scientists, engineers and manufacturers alike. The aspect of most …

This text aims at providing a comprehensive and up to date treatment of the new and rapidly
expanding field of laser pro cessing of thin films, particularly, though by no means exclu …

We have used two-photon absorption, self-defocusing, and optically-induced melting in
GaAs to limit 1 μm picosecond pulsed radiation. The contribution to the limiting action from …