ɴʀȾʀ CVD ᗕǺȗȚȬɋɐɲȪયكɀɳȻɓȪℋڽȂɉɇɓȪℋǽڢƖ۰༔ ቆቧᱧʶ ኇلগકʈୡቦᄦᮾ᳣ཀࢫ980-8577 ͜۞లԂ⊡ٚᢨ౪ 2-1-1Yttria-stabilized zirconia YSZ, Zr 1ࢬx Y x O 2ࢬx2 and titania TiO 2 films were prepared by laser chemical vapor deposition LCVD. The deposition rate increased drastically by laser irradiation, and reached to 660 mmh for YSZ and 2300 mmh for TiO 2 films. The increase of the deposition rate was resulted from plasma formation around the deposition zone, and the plasma was formed at high laser power and high substrate pre-heating temperature. Various morphologies of films such as feather-like columnar structure and dense microstructure were obtained depending on deposition conditions. The columnar structure contained a large amount of nano-pores at columnar boundary and in grains.=Received November 16, 2005?Key-words : Laser chemical vapor deposition, Yttria-stabilized zirconia, Titania, Morphology, Nano-structure 1. Introduction Laser chemical vapor deposition LCVD has been developed to fabricate thin films in semiconductor devise applications.1 LCVD can be categorized into two; one is photolytic LCVD where laser is used as a energy-source for photochemical reactions and the other is pyrolytic LCVD where laser is used as a heat-source for thermal reactions. In photolytic LCVD, ultra-violet laser is often used because the high photon energy of several eV. The chemical reactions for the film deposition would proceed by high energy photon energy even without substrate heating. In pyrolytic LCVD, on the other hand, significantly high deposition rates have been achieved by focusing laser beam. However, the volume deposition rate deposition rate in thickness multiplied by area has been very small ranging around 10 ࢬ12 to 10 ࢬ8 m 3 h ࢬ1 , where thin films, small dots and thin wires have been prepared.2 A CO 2 laser with high power about several 100 W was employed in LCVD to prepare relatively thick materials such as TiN and TiB 2 several 10 mm in thickness.2 However, pyrolytic LCVD using the CO 2 laser has not been widely utilized due to several difficulties such as absorption by window material; ZnSe could be commonly chosen to avoid absorption of an infra-red light.On the other hand, the recent development of laser technology can provide usage of high-power laser with easiness. We have found that many oxide thick films can be prepared at high deposition rates more than several 100 mmh by using LCVD.3,4 This paper focuses on the preparation of yttriastabilized zirconia YSZ and titania TiO 2 films by LCVD using high power Nd:YAG laser.YSZ films have been intensively investigated as thermal barrier coatings TBCs, 5 since YSZ films are chemically stable at high temperatures having a low thermal conductivity and good compatibility with Ni-base superalloy. The thickness of TBCs should be more than several 100 mm, and therefore high-speed deposition processes such as plasma spray 6 and electron-beam physical vapor deposition EB-PVD 7 have been employed. However, heterogeneous microstructures of thermal spray TBCs have often caused delaminati...