Pulsed Laser Deposition of Thin Films – Applications–Led Growth of Functional Materials

ROBERT EASON, PhD, is Professor of Optoelectronics at the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton, UK, and a member of the ORC Management Board. Professor Eason has more than 140 journal and 160 conference publications to his credit. His achievements in PLD include the world's first lasing PLD waveguide (Nd:GGG on YAG), quasi--three level c.w. operation of Nd:GGG, the growth of single crystal thin--film sapphire that matches the best bulk sapphire grown to date, and the first successful growth and laser operation of Ti:sapphire on sapphire waveguides.

SECTION I. Chapter 1. Pulsed Laser Deposition of Complex Materials: Progress Towards Applications. SECTION II. Chapter 2. Resonant Infrared Pulsed Laser Ablation and Deposition of Thin Polymer Films. Chapter 3. Deposition of Polymers and Biomaterials Using the Matrix Assisted Pulsed Laser Eveporation (MAPLE) Process. Chapter 4. In situ Diagnostics by High Pressure RHEED during PLD. Chapter 5. Ultra--fast laser Ablation and Film Deposition. Chapter 6. Cross--beam PLD: Metastable Film Structures from Intersecting Plumes. Chapter 7. Combinatorial Pulsed Laser Deposition. Chapter 8. Growth Kinetics During Pulsed Laser Deposition. Chapter 9. Large Area Commercial Pulsed Laser Deposition. SECTION III. Chapter 10. Coating Powders for Drug Delivery Systems Using Pulsed Laser Deposition. Chapter 11. Transparent Conducting Oxide Films. Chapter 12. ZnO and ZnO--related Compounds. Chapter 13. Group III Nitride Growth. Chapter 14. Pulsed Laser Deposition of High--Temperature Superconducting Thin Films and Their Applications. Chapter 15. DLC: Medical and Mechanical Applications. Chapter 16. Pulsed Laser Deposition of Metals. SECTION IV. Chapter 17. Optical Waveguide Growth and Applications. Chapter 18. Biomaterials: New issues and Breakthroughs for Biomedical applications. Chapter 19. Thermoelectric Materials. Chapter 20. Piezoelectrics. Chapter 21. Ferroelectric Thin Films for Microwave Device Applications. Chapter 22. Films for Electrochemical Applications. Chapter 23. Pulsed Laser Deposition of Tribological Coatings. SECTION V. Chapter 24. Laser Ablation Synthesis of Single--wall Carbon Nanotubes: The SLS Model. Chapter 25. Quasicrystalline Thin Films. Index.