Special Issue Article
Nanofabrication with Pulsed Lasers
Author affiliations
1 Lasers, Plasmas et Procédés Photoniques (LP3, UMR 6182 CNRS), Université de la Méditerranée, Campus de Luminy-case 917, 13288, Marseille Cedex 9, France
2 Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie des Matériaux Luminescents, LPCML (UMR 5620 CNRS), Domaine Scientifique de la Doua, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 10 rue Ada Byron, 69622, Villeurbanne, France
Citation and License
Nanoscale Research Letters 2010, 5:454-463 doi:10.1007/s11671-010-9543-z
Published: 24 February 2010Abstract
An overview of pulsed laser-assisted methods for nanofabrication, which are currently developed in our Institute (LP3), is presented. The methods compass a variety of possibilities for material nanostructuring offered by laser–matter interactions and imply either the nanostructuring of the laser-illuminated surface itself, as in cases of direct laser ablation or laser plasma-assisted treatment of semiconductors to form light-absorbing and light-emitting nano-architectures, as well as periodic nanoarrays, or laser-assisted production of nanoclusters and their controlled growth in gaseous or liquid medium to form nanostructured films or colloidal nanoparticles. Nanomaterials synthesized by laser-assisted methods have a variety of unique properties, not reproducible by any other route, and are of importance for photovoltaics, optoelectronics, biological sensing, imaging and therapeutics.
