Heat-affected zone and ablation rate of copper ablated with femtosecond laser
- 1 March 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 97 (6), 064903
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1852692
Abstract
We describe the experimental and molecular dynamics simulation study of crystalline copper(Cu)ablation using femtosecond lasers. This study is focused on the heat-affected zone after femtosecond laserablation and the laser ablation rate. As a result of the x-ray diffraction measurement on the ablated surface, the crystallinity of the surface is partially changed from a crystal structure into an amorphous one. At the laser fluences below the ablation threshold, the entire laser energy coupled to the Cu target is absorbed, while during the fluence regime over the threshold fluence, the ablation rate depends on the absorption coefficient, and the residual energy which is not used for the ablation, is left in the Cu substrate. The heat-affected zone at the fluences below the threshold is estimated to be greater than that over the threshold fluence. In addition, the laser ablation of Cu is theoretically investigated by a two-temperature model and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation to explain the heat-affected zone and ablation rate. The MD simulation takes into account the electron temperature and thermal diffusion length calculated by the two-temperature model. Variation in the lattice temperature with time and depth is calculated by the MD simulation coupled with the two-temperature model. The experimental ablation rate and the heat-affected zone are theoretically well explained.Keywords
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