scholarly journals Short-Pulse Lasers: A Versatile Tool in Creating Novel Nano-/Micro-Structures and Compositional Analysis for Healthcare and Wellbeing Challenges

Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 712
Author(s):  
Ahmed Al-Kattan ◽  
David Grojo ◽  
Christophe Drouet ◽  
Alexandros Mouskeftaras ◽  
Philippe Delaporte ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Laser Ablation ◽  
Surface Engineering ◽  
Short Pulse ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Compositional Analysis ◽  
Periodic Patterns ◽  
Laser Ablation In Liquid ◽  
Micro Scale ◽  
Direct Laser ◽  
Contact Free

Driven by flexibility, precision, repeatability and eco-friendliness, laser-based technologies have attracted great interest to engineer or to analyze materials in various fields including energy, environment, biology and medicine. A major advantage of laser processing relies on the ability to directly structure matter at different scales and to prepare novel materials with unique physical and chemical properties. It is also a contact-free approach that makes it possible to work in inert or reactive liquid or gaseous environment. This leads today to a unique opportunity for designing, fabricating and even analyzing novel complex bio-systems. To illustrate this potential, in this paper, we gather our recent research on four types of laser-based methods relevant for nano-/micro-scale applications. First, we present and discuss pulsed laser ablation in liquid, exploited today for synthetizing ultraclean “bare” nanoparticles attractive for medicine and tissue engineering applications. Second, we discuss robust methods for rapid surface and bulk machining (subtractive manufacturing) at different scales by laser ablation. Among them, the microsphere-assisted laser surface engineering is detailed for its appropriateness to design structured substrates with hierarchically periodic patterns at nano-/micro-scale without chemical treatments. Third, we address the laser-induced forward transfer, a technology based on direct laser printing, to transfer and assemble a multitude of materials (additive structuring), including biological moiety without alteration of functionality. Finally, the fourth method is about chemical analysis: we present the potential of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, providing a unique tool for contact-free and space-resolved elemental analysis of organic materials. Overall, we present and discuss the prospect and complementarity of emerging reliable laser technologies, to address challenges in materials’ preparation relevant for the development of innovative multi-scale and multi-material platforms for bio-applications.

Silicon Thinning using Ultra-Short Pulse Laser Ablation

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Beaudoin ◽  
P. Perdu ◽  
C. DeNardi ◽  
R. Desplats ◽  
J. Lopez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Laser Ablation ◽  
Sample Preparation ◽  
Pulse Laser ◽  
Pulse Laser Ablation ◽  
Short Pulse ◽  
Special Care ◽  
Short Pulse Laser ◽  
Ultra Short Pulse ◽  
Ultra Short Pulse Laser

Abstract Ultra-short pulse laser ablation is applied to IC backside sample preparation. It is contact-less, non-thermal, precise and can ablate the various types of material present in IC packages. This study concerns the optimization of ultra-short pulse laser ablation for silicon thinning. Uncontrolled silicon roughness and poor uniformity of the laser thinned cavity needed to be tackled. Special care is taken to minimize the silicon RMS roughness to less than 1µm. Application to sample preparation of 256Mbit devices is presented.

scholarly journals Microfabrication and Surface Functionalization of Soda Lime Glass through Direct Laser Interference Patterning

Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Marcos Soldera ◽  
Sabri Alamri ◽  
Paul Alexander Sürmann ◽  
Tim Kunze ◽  
Andrés Fabián Lasagni
Keyword(s):  
Laser Radiation ◽  
Surface Functionalization ◽  
Incident Light ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Visible Spectrum ◽  
Soda Lime ◽  
Soda Lime Glass ◽  
Textured Surfaces ◽  
Aspect Ratios ◽  
Direct Laser

All-purpose glasses are common in many established and emerging industries, such as microelectronics, photovoltaics, optical components, and biomedical devices due to their outstanding combination of mechanical, optical, thermal, and chemical properties. Surface functionalization through nano/micropatterning can further enhance glasses’ surface properties, expanding their applicability into new fields. Although laser structuring methods have been successfully employed on many absorbing materials, the processability of transparent materials with visible laser radiation has not been intensively studied, especially for producing structures smaller than 10 µm. Here, interference-based optical setups are used to directly pattern soda lime substrates through non-lineal absorption with ps-pulsed laser radiation in the visible spectrum. Line- and dot-like patterns are fabricated with spatial periods between 2.3 and 9.0 µm and aspect ratios up to 0.29. Furthermore, laser-induced periodic surface structures (LIPSS) with a feature size of approximately 300 nm are visible within these microstructures. The textured surfaces show significantly modified properties. Namely, the treated surfaces have an increased hydrophilic behavior, even reaching a super-hydrophilic state for some cases. In addition, the micropatterns act as relief diffraction gratings, which split incident light into diffraction modes. The process parameters were optimized to produce high-quality textures with super-hydrophilic properties and diffraction efficiencies above 30%.

scholarly journals Template-free, single step preparation of hollow Coo nano spheres using pulsed laser ablation in liquid environment

2021 ◽  
pp. 103317
Author(s):  
Muidh Alheshibri ◽  
Sultan Akhtar ◽  
Abbad Al Baroot ◽  
Khaled Elsayed ◽  
Hassan S Al Qahtani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Laser Ablation ◽  
Pulsed Laser ◽  
Pulsed Laser Ablation ◽  
Single Step ◽  
Laser Ablation In Liquid ◽  
Liquid Environment ◽  
Template Free

A comparative study of direct laser ablation and laser-induced plasma-assisted ablation on glass surface

2021 ◽  
pp. 103737
Author(s):  
Yani Xia ◽  
Xiubing Jing ◽  
Dawei Zhang ◽  
Fujun Wang ◽  
Syed Husain Imran Jaffery ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Laser Ablation ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Glass Surface ◽  
Laser Induced Plasma ◽  
Direct Laser
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