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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 123, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.5011738
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- LiNaBioFluid
- EU [665337]
- Nanoscience Foundries and Fine Analysis (NFFA)-Europe H2020-INFRAIA [654360]
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We present a theoretical investigation of the dynamics of the dielectric constant of noble metals following heating with ultrashort pulsed laser beams and the influence of the temporal variation of the associated optical properties on the thermomechanical response of the material. The effect of the electron relaxation time on the optical properties based on the use of a critical point model is thoroughly explored for various pulse duration values (i.e., from 110 fs to 8 ps). The proposed theoretical framework correlates the dynamical change in optical parameters, relaxation processes and induced strains-stresses. Simulations are presented by choosing gold as a test material, and we demonstrate that the consideration of the aforementioned factors leads to significant thermal effect changes compared to results when static parameters are assumed. The proposed model predicts a substantially smaller damage threshold and a large increase of the stress which firstly underlines the significant role of the temporal variation of the optical properties and secondly enhances its importance with respect to the precise determination of laser specifications in material micromachining techniques. Published by AIP Publishing.
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