Laser cleaning has become a promising technology due to its green, environmentally
friendly, and efficient features. It will gradually replace the traditional cleaning processes …

Photomechanical ablation is a process by which absorption of a laser pulse in a target
creates mechanical stress that leads to material fracture and ejection. Steverding in an early …

Water is always present in laser processing in air: as vapor, condensate or adsorbate. Water
is the working environment in underwater processing—but it can also be added on purpose …

In 1982, the first reports of laser ablation of polymers were issued almost simultaneously by
Y. Kawamura et al. 1 and R. Srinivasan et al. 2 Srinivasan went on to become a leader in the …

When a high-power laser beam is focused into liquid, it results in a shock wave emission
and cavitation bubble generation. Upon inserting a rigid substrate into the liquid, the …

Laser-induced patterning of material surfaces by ablation, etching, deposition, and
modification has been reviewed in Ref. 1. Here, patterning was performed by ''direct …

Laser processing of solid materials has been commonly performed in gas ambient. Having
the workpiece immersed into liquid, having a liquid film on it, or soaking the material with …

Micro/nanoparticles contamination is a major cause of laser-induced damage to optical
components. This study performs theoretical and experimental research on laser dry …

Excimer laser ablation is a very powerful tool of dry cleaning. This technique allows the
removal or oxide or painting deposited on a material without any modifications of the …

Laser-induced ripple structures formation at photoresist films (thickness of 700 nm) is
investigated in water and in air using a partial polarized Excimer laser beam (wavelength of …