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Evaporation and Plasma Formation

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Laser-Beam Interactions with Materials

Part of the book series: Springer Series in Materials Science ((SSMATERIALS,volume 2))

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The subtle and varied structural modifications considered in the previous chapters represent only a narrow window of irradiance or fluence, in which material is heated or melted but (essentially) not vaporized. In the following, material effects pertaining to the open-ended interval of irradiances exceeding the evaporation threshold will be considered. The physics involved is quite different from that considered in Chap.4, and so is our point of view: Rather than studying what are essentially relaxation phenomena occurring after irradiation, we shall again deal with true light-matter interactions and consider relaxation effects only occasionally. The material effects in this regime are also rather less subtle than those discussed so far: Instead of microscopic structural rearrangements we shall be concerned with transport of macroscopic masses over macroscopic distances, with ablation and compression of material and with internal energies large compared to chemical activation energies.

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von Allmen, M. (1987). Evaporation and Plasma Formation. In: Laser-Beam Interactions with Materials. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97007-8_5

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