Michael Stuke – författare

This volume includes a collection of papers presented in Symposium TT, 'Laser-Material Interactions at Micro/Nanoscales', at the Spring 2011 Materials Research Society Meeting held April 2011 in San Francisco. Laser-material interactions are of fundamental importance in a wide range of materials-related research and areas of technology, including green energy, photonics, electronics, environmental studies, biomedical imaging, medical treatment and optical spectroscopy. This symposium provided an interdisciplinary forum for scientists and engineers from different fields to discuss the physical, chemical, thermal and mechanical phenomena that occur during laser-material interactions at micro and nano scales. Research addressing new materials, processes, structures and surfaces synthesized by these methods for emerging fields was discussed. The symposium was well attended and received a large number of abstract submissions in the areas of ultrafast laser processing, laser ablation and deposition, process controls, nanomaterials, surface modification, laser materials interactions, polymerization, lithography and novel approaches in laser processing.

In Dye Lasers: 25 years, the pioneers and leading experts inthe field of dye lasers present the current status andbright future perspectives of dye lasers and theirapplications in physics and chemistry. Particular topicscovered include: new sources of ultrashort pulses, novelaspects of resonator design and imaging for femtosecondlasers, amplification schemes to terawatt intensity regimes,optics and high-resolution spectroscopy of atoms andmolecules, and electro-optic and plasma physics applicationsof ultrashort and ultra-intense laser pulses.Since its invention in 1966, the dye laser hasrevolutionized many fields of science and technology.Questions of fundamental interest in physics and chemistrycan now be answered: it is possible to test fundamentalquantum physics in single-atom experiments andregioselective photochemistry in complexes can be monitoreddirectlyusing dye-laser diagnostic methods.In this book the latest results (and most recent references)are presented for new sources of ultrashort pulses from thevisible to the VUV, together with experimental details ofultrahigh-resolution spectroscopy of atoms and molecules,laser diagnostics of the dynamics of elementary chemicalreactions, and ultrahigh intensity sources for laser targetinteraction.