Analysis of removal region in nanoscale metal film processed by ultrafast-pulse laser

Chen, B.C.; Lee, Y.C.; Ho, Ching-Yen; Wen, Mao-Yu; Tsai, Yun-Long

doi:10.1016/j.commatsci.2015.11.037

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“…Polymers [13][14][15][16], ceramics [17], glass [12,[18][19][20], metals [21,22], diamonds [23], sapphire [17], etc. can be processed with an ultrashort pulsed laser.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The ultrashort pulsed laser processing for materials involved the transfer between optical and thermal energy as well as the thermal transport between electrons and phonons in materials [13,19,21,[24][25][26]. Based on the measured data [24,25], the optical and thermal effects on the ultrashort pulsed laser ablation for materials are considered to be two ablation regime: One is that the ablation depth per pulse for low laser fluences can be expressed by the product of optical absorption length and the logarithm of the ratio of laser fluence to laser threshold fluence and the other is that the ablation depth per pulse for high laser fluences is the product of thermal diffusive length and the logarithm of the ratio of laser fluence to higher-threshold fluence.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Analysis of Direct Optical Ablation and Sequent Thermal Ablation for the Ultrashort Pulsed Laser Photo-Thermal Micromachining

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2020

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An ultra-fast pulsed laser for materials processing can obtain submicrometer- to nanometer-sized parts or patterns (precision or accuracy) because the heat cannot diffuse in time for an ultra-fast pulsed duration, and this causes a threshold of ablation in multi-photoabsorption. The optical and thermal effects significantly affect the processing quality of an ultrashort pulsed laser for materials. This study utilizes a Laplace transform method to display the optical and thermal effects on the temperature field and the ablated depth of an ultrashort pulsed laser processing of materials. The results reveal that If an ultrafast pulsed laser-induced heat can keep the irradiated region above the evaporated temperature until the thermal diffusion occurs in the lattice of materials, thermal ablation occurs. The optical ablation can get a better processing quality due to less thermal diffusion. This study theoretically elucidates that the depth of optical ablation approximates the product of an optical absorption length and the logarithm of the ratio of laser fluence to laser fluence threshold. It has also been shown that the optical and thermal ablation, respectively, occur in low and high laser fluence because the optical ablation depends directly on the main source of the incident ultrashort pulsed laser. However, the thermal ablation is determined by the residual heat directly from the incident ultrashort pulsed laser after the optical ablation. The increase rate of the ablated depth per pulse with laser fluence is actually lower at high laser fluences than that at low laser fluences because the thermal ablation using the residual heat directly from the incident ultrashort pulsed laser is governed at high laser fluences. This study will provide the closed-form of a solution that elucidate the direct optical ablation and sequent thermal ablation for the ultra-fast pulsed laser photo-thermal processing.

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“…Polymers [13][14][15][16], ceramics [17], glass [12,[18][19][20], metals [21,22], diamonds [23], sapphire [17], etc. can be processed with an ultrashort pulsed laser.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%