Emphasising the fundamentals of transport phenomena, this book provides researchers and practitioners with the technical background they need to understand laser-induced microfabrication and materials processing at small scales. It clarifies the laser/materials coupling mechanisms, and discusses the nanoscale confined laser interactions that constitute powerful tools for top-down nanomanufacturing. In addition to discussing key and emerging applications to modern technology, with particular respect to electronics, advanced topics such as the use of lasers for nanoprocessing and nanomachining, the interaction with polymer materials, nanoparticles and clusters, and the processing of thin films are also covered.

Provides researchers and practitioners with the technical background to understand transport phenomena in laser microfabrication applications.

Provides researchers and practitioners with the technical background to understand transport phenomena in laser microfabrication applications.

A thorough introduction to 3D laser microfabrication technology, leading readers from the fundamentals and theory to its various potent applications, such as the generation of tiny objects or three-dimensional structures within the bulk of transparent materials. The book also presents new theoretical material on dielectric breakdown, allowing a better understanding of the differences between optical damage on surfaces and inside the bulk, as well as a look into the future. Chemists, physicists, materials scientists and engineers will find this a valuable source of interdisciplinary knowledge in the field of laser optics and nanotechnology.

This book reviews the solid core of fundamental scientific knowledge on laser-stimulated surface chemistry that has accumulated over the past few years. It provides a useful overview for the student and interested non-expert as well as essential reference data (photodissociation cross sections, thermochemical constants, etc.) for the active researcher.

Miniaturization and high precision are rapidly becoming a requirement for many industrial processes and products. As a result, there is greater interest in the use of laser microfabrication technology to achieve these goals. This book composed of 16 chapters covers all the topics of laser precision processing from fundamental aspects to industrial applications to both inorganic and biological materials. It reviews the sate of the art of research and technological development in the area of laser processing.

For cellular biology, the idea of incorporating the capabilities of sample preparation, transport, reaction and analysis on a single chip has recently been revisited due to the development of a new generation of microfabrication tools. The rapid growth of interest in the microfabrication of lab-on-a-chip devices is fueled both by academia and industry because of the potential impact in fields such as biomedical, chemistry and biophysics. Direct photoablation with lasers has advantages of rapid prototyping, custom production and design flexibility. In this thesis, the microfabrication of lab-on-a-chip structures for biophotonics application using F2 laser are presented. Fabrication of buried and surface waveguides provides a means of probing bio-materials. Investigation of F2-laser welding allows potential fusing for enclosure glass biochips. A combination of laser micromachining and refractive index profiling enable single-step integration of optical waveguides with microfluidic functions for optical sensing of microspheres which lays the groundwork for microfabrication of biochips.