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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 82, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.064113
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- National Science Foundation [DMR-0755256, DMR-1004873, DMR-1008676]
- RFBR [10-08-92661-NNF_a]
- ARO DURIP
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0755256, 1004873] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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By extending molecular-dynamics simulation to the experimental micrometer length scale, we observed the complete dynamics of gold films subjected to ultrashort (less than or similar to 1 ps) laser irradiation, culminating in cavitation then ablation of the melt at the front, and crack nucleation then spallation at the rear side of the sample. For thick films (>0.5 mu m) ablation and spallation are spatially separated; whereas for thin films, they merge into a unique damage process, which leads to a dependence of ablation threshold on film thickness. This work provides insights into thermomechanical dynamics of irradiated metal films, including coupling-decoupling of ablation and spallation processes, and opens up a field of direct comparison between experiment and atomistic simulations.
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