Excimer Lasers

Content.- Excimer Lasers: Current Status and Future Developments.- Compact Phototriggered Switchless Lasers and Very Large X-Ray Preionized Excimer Lasers: Innovative Technologies of New Excimer Lasers.- Maintenance Issues of Excimer Lasers in a Production or Industrial Research Environment.- Pulsed-Laser Ablation.- Photophysical Ablation of Organic Polymers.- Dynamics of the Vapor Plume in Laser Materials Ablation.- Surface and Three-dimensional Processing by Laser Chemical Vapor Deposition.- Chemical Vapour Deposition of Crystalline and Amorphous Carbon, Silicon and Germanium Films.- Laser Excitation and Detection of Surface Acoustic Wave Pulses.- Gas and Adsorbed-Phase UV Photochemistry of Tetramethyltin (TMT) Probed by In-Situ Optical Diagnostics and Surface-Sensitive Techniques.- Materials Analysis Based on Quantitative Laser Ionization.- Time-resolved Diagnostics of Excimer Laser-Generated Ablation Plasmas used for Pulsed Laser Deposition.- Excimer Laser Induced Permanent Electrical Conductivity and Nanostructures in Polymers.- Photoablation and Surface Modification of Polymers with the Excimer Laser Radiation.- Process of Generating 3d-Microstructures with Excimer Lasers.- Non-Coherent Structure Formation on UV-Laser Irradiated Polymers.- An Innovative High Repetition Rate Shot Per Shot Acquisition System and its Application to a New Kind of Tropospheric LIDAR Measurements.- Detection of Heavy Metals in Environmental Samples Using Laser Spark Analysis.- Applications of Excimer Laser Based Remote Sensing Systems to Problems Related to Water Pollution.- Applications of Lasers in Microelectronics and Micromechanics.- Excimer Laser for in situ Processing in Microelectronics.- Soft X-ray Radiation from Excimer-Driven Laser-plasma Sources: Application to Submicron Lithography.- Excimer Laser Beam Interaction with Metals and Ceramics Part I: Fundamental Aspects.- Excimer Laser Beam Interaction with Metals and Ceramics Part II: Materials Aspects and Applications.- Pulsed Excimer Laser Crystallization and Doping for the Fabrication of Poly-Si and SiGe TFTs.- Excimer Laser Surface Treatment of a S.G. Cast Iron: Possible Application for the Running-in Part of the Automotive Motors.- Transient Structural Modifications of Sintered Commercial Aluminum Nitride Ceramics Resulting from Low Fluence Excimer Laser Irradiation.- How to Implement New Technology on a Production Line: Via-Hole Drilling with KrF-Laser as an Example.- Coronary Angioplasty with Excimer Laser.- Corneal Optical Zone Reshaping with Excimer Laser.- Laser Induced Fluorescence as a Tool for Atherosclerotic Tissue Characterization During Excimer Laser Aided Ablation.- List of participants.