Pulsed Laser Deposition of Thin Films

Edited by major contributors to the field, this text summarizes current or newly emerging pulsed laser deposition application areas. It spans the field of optical devices, electronic materials, sensors and actuators, biomaterials, and organic polymers. Every scientist, technologist and development engineer who has a need to grow and pattern, to apply and use thin film materials will regard this book as a must-have resource.

Edited by major contributors to the field, this text summarizes current or newly emerging pulsed laser deposition application areas. It spans the field of optical devices, electronic materials, sensors and actuators, biomaterials, and organic polymers. Every scientist, technologist and development engineer who has a need to grow and pattern, to apply and use thin film materials will regard this book as a must-have resource.

Preface.Contributors.SECTION I.1. Pulsed Laser Deposition of Complex Materials: ProgressTowards Applications (D. Norton).SECTION II.2. Resonant Infrared Pulsed Laser Ablation and Deposition ofThin Polymer Films (D. Bubb & R. Haglund).3. Deposition of Polymers and Biomaterials Using the MatrixAssisted Pulsed Laser Eveporation (MAPLE) Process (A.Piqué).4. In situ Diagnostics by High Pressure RHEED during PLD (G.Rijnders & D. Blank).5. Ultra-fast laser Ablation and Film Deposition (E. Gamaly, etal.).6. Cross-beam PLD: Metastable Film Structures from IntersectingPlumes (A. Gorbunoff).7. Combinatorial Pulsed Laser Deposition (I. Takeuchi).8. Growth Kinetics During Pulsed Laser Deposition (G. Rijnders& D. Blank).9. Large Area Commercial Pulsed Laser Deposition (J. Greer).SECTION III.10. Coating Powders for Drug Delivery Systems Using Pulsed LaserDeposition (J. Talton, et al.).11. Transparent Conducting Oxide Films (H. Kim).12. ZnO and ZnO-related Compounds (J. Perriére, etal.).13. Group III Nitride Growth (D. O'Mahony & J. Lunney).14. Pulsed Laser Deposition of High-Temperature SuperconductingThin Films and Their Applications (B. Schey).15. DLC: Medical and Mechanical Applications (R. Narayan).16. Pulsed Laser Deposition of Metals (H. Krebs).SECTION IV.17. Optical Waveguide Growth and Applications (R. Eason, etal.).18. Biomaterials: New issues and Breakthroughs for BiomedicalApplications (V. Nelea, et al.).19. Thermoelectric Materials (A. Dauscher & B. Lenoir).20. Piezoelectrics (F. Cracium & M. Dinescu).21. Ferroelectric Thin Films for Microwave Device Applications(C. Chen & J. Horwitz).22. Films for Electrochemical Applications (M. Montenegro &T. Lippert).23. Pulsed Laser Deposition of Tribological Coatings (A.Voevodin, et al.).SECTION V.24. Laser Ablation Synthesis of Single-wall Carbon Nanotubes:The SLS Model (A. Gorbunoff & O. Jost).25. Quasicrystalline Thin Films (P. Willmott).Index.