Desorption of positive ions and plume formation from laser irradiation of ionic crystals

J. Thomas Dickinson; David R. Ermer; Jaw-Jung Shin; Steve C. Langford

doi:10.1117/12.273713

9 May 1997 Desorption of positive ions and plume formation from laser irradiation of ionic crystals

J. Thomas Dickinson, David R. Ermer, Jaw-Jung Shin, Steve C. Langford

Proceedings Volume 2991, Laser Applications in Microelectronic and Optoelectronic Manufacturing II; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.273713
Event: Photonics West '97, 1997, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

In applications of high intensity lasers to materials processing, the formation of an ablation plume is of high importance. For wide bandgap insulators (e.g., oxides, halides, nitrides, carbides) irradiated with sub bandgap photon energies, the route to plume formation is not well understood. For example, contrary to metals and semiconductors, inverse bremsstrahlung (IB) is not possible for a wide range of laser intensities on these materials due to insufficient photon and electron densities. We present an alternative path to plume formation on nominally transparent materials. In this paper, we first review the interaction of photo- and thermally-emitted particles from exposure to pulsed laser irradiation of surfaces which include photoelectrons, energetic positive ions, and neutral metal atoms. We establish experimentally that there is overlap in space and time of significant portions of the distributions of these particles in the near surface region. We then present a model for the collected motion of these particles and show that as laser fluence is increased we achieve sufficient densities, overlap, and kinetic energies to result in the onset of plume fluorescence and eventually ionization at fluences far below any IB or catastrophic breakdown process.

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J. Thomas Dickinson, David R. Ermer, Jaw-Jung Shin, and Steve C. Langford "Desorption of positive ions and plume formation from laser irradiation of ionic crystals", Proc. SPIE 2991, Laser Applications in Microelectronic and Optoelectronic Manufacturing II, (9 May 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.273713

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