Publisher's Synopsis
The contributions in this volume focus on the main directions that ablation has taken in recent years: basic mechanisms, diagnostics and applications to surface etching, materials synthesis and instrumentation. T he materials synthesis of new compounds is expanding rapidly since the discovery of high Tc superconductors. Photoablation has developed into a very elegant technique to evaporate solids and grow thin films and multilayers in a very controlled manner. Mass and optical spectroscopies of ablated particles have led to new concepts of fast analysis of solids, which are certainly going to be widely used and further developed. New experimental as well as theoretical approaches are presented. The work will be the definitive reference source for anyone interested in the latest advances and results of current experimental research in ablation techniques and concepts.
