11 - 18 July 2010 - Venice, Italy
The purpose of the School is to offer a comprehensive overview on basic principles and relevant applications connected to the irradiation of solids by energetic laser beams. The goal is to explore the use of light in the development of novel materials with emphasis on specific control of their properties at nanometer scale. The field is relatively young and has grown at a very high rate in the last fifteen years, thanks to worldwide research activity. One area of very high interest is the use of lasers in deposition processes; it is possible, for example, to deposit virtually any material, including multi-component compounds, preserving the composition of the ablated target, and generally avoiding post-deposition thermal treatments. In addition, the experimental setup involved in pulsed laser deposition is generally compatible with in situ diagnostics of both the plasma and the growing film. The basic laser-surface interaction mechanisms possibly in an ambient atmosphere, either chemically reactive, or inert are a challenge to scientists, while engineers are mostly interested to the characteristics of the deposited materials and to the possibility to tailor their properties through an appropriate tuning of the deposition parameters
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