期刊
APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
卷 255, 期 10, 页码 5101-5106出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2008.07.116
关键词
Laser ablation; Molecular-dynamics simulations; Phase explosion; Fragmentation; Spallation
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资金
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Fonds Quebecois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies (FQRNT)
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC52-O6NA25396]
- Director's Funding at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Laser ablation is a technology widely used in many applications. Understanding in detail the mechanisms that lead to ablation remains a formidable challenge because of the complexity of the processes taking place, the variety of species involved, and the range of length and time scales covered. Atomic-level experimental information is difficult to obtain and must be augmented by theory. In this article, we briefly review the progresses that we have accomplished using a simple two-dimensional molecular-dynamics model, insisting on the importance of considering the thermodynamics of the evolution of the systems in order to understand ablation. Through the identification of the thermodynamic pathways followed by the material after irradiation, our model has provided significant insights on the physical mechanisms leading to ablation. It has been demonstrated in particular that these depend strongly on the influence, and are actually determined by the effective amount of energy received within different regions of the target. Further, internal or external factors, such as inertial confinement, play a key role in determining the route to ablation - and thus the types and sizes of particles ejected - by constraining the thermodynamical evolution of the system. We have established that, for ultrashort pulses in strongly absorbing materials, ablation proceeds by either spallation, phase explosion or fragmentation; the latter, we demonstrate, is the most important mechanism. For longer pulses, ablation may also proceed by trivial fragmentation. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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