edited by John C. Miller and Richard F. Haglund, Jr.
San Diego :
Academic Press,
c1998.
xvii, 647 p. :
ill. (some col.) ;
24 cm.
Experimental methods in the physical sciences ;
v. 30
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction to laser desorption and ablation / John C. Miller -- Mechanisms of laser-induced desorption and ablation / Richard F. Haglund, Jr. -- Low fluence laser desorption and plume formation from wide bandgap crystalline materials / J. Thomas Dickinson -- Lasers, optics, and thermal considerations in ablation experiments / Costas P. Grigoropoulos -- Plume formation and characterization in laser-surface interactions / Roger Kelly ... [et al.] -- Surface characterization / Marika Scleberger, Sylvia Speller, and Werner Heiland -- Surface modification with lasers / Zane Ball and Roland Sauerbrey -- Chemical analysis by laser ablation / Richard E. Russo and Xianglei Mao -- Matrix-assisted laser desorption and ionization / James A. Carroll and Ronald C. Beavis -- Physical mechanisms governing the ablation of biological tissue / Glenn Edwards -- Growth and doping of compound semiconductor films by pulsed laser ablation / Douglas H. Lowndes -- Laser ablation in optical components and thin films / Michael Reichling -- The future of laser ablation / Richard F. Haglund, Jr.