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Dynamical modeling of laser ablation processes

Conference ·
OSTI ID:103523

Several physics and computational approaches have been developed to globally characterize phenomena important for film growth by pulsed laser deposition of materials. These include thermal models of laser-solid target interactions that initiate the vapor plume; plume ionization and heating through laser absorption beyond local thermodynamic equilibrium mechanisms; gas dynamic, hydrodynamic, and collisional descriptions of plume transport; and molecular dynamics models of the interaction of plume particles with the deposition substrate. The complexity of the phenomena involved in the laser ablation process is matched by the diversity of the modeling task, which combines materials science, atomic physics, and plasma physics.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); Oak Ridge Inst. for Science and Education, TN (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-84OR21400
OSTI ID:
103523
Report Number(s):
CONF-950412--46; ON: DE95017384
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English