Artigo Revisado por pares

Microstructuring of silicon with femtosecond laser pulses

1998; American Institute of Physics; Volume: 73; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1063/1.122241

ISSN

1520-8842

Autores

Tsing-Hua Her, Richard Finlay, Claudia Wu, Shrenik Deliwala, Eric Mazur,

Tópico(s)

Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies

Resumo

We report that silicon surfaces develop an array of sharp conical spikes when irradiated with 500 laser pulses of 100-fs duration, 10-kJ/m2 fluence in 500-Torr SF6 or Cl2. The spikes are up to 40-μm tall, and taper to about 1-μm diam at the tip. Irradiation of silicon surfaces in N2, Ne, or vacuum creates structured surfaces, but does not create sharp conical spikes.

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