Title :
Super-dense Al formed by ultrafast laser microexplosion
Author :
Vailionis, Arturas ; Gamaly, Eugene G. ; Mizeikis, Vygantas ; Yang, Wenge ; Rode, Andrei V. ; Juodkazis, Saulius
Author_Institution :
Geballe Lab. for Adv. Mater., Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA, USA
Abstract :
We discovered a new super-dense be c-Al phase formed in microexplosion induced by a femtosecond laser pulse focused in a bulk of sapphire. A mechanism for spatial separation of sapphire constituent aluminium and oxygen is proposed.
Keywords :
aluminium; explosions; high-speed optical techniques; laser beam effects; laser materials processing; sapphire; Al2O3; femtosecond laser pulse; sapphire constituent spatial separation; superdense aluminum; ultrafast laser microexplosion; Laboratories; Laser theory; Materials; Measurement by laser beam; Physics; X-ray lasers; X-ray scattering;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0533-5
Electronic_ISBN :
Pending
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5943321
