Physical Processes in Laser-Materials Interactions, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983 NATO Science Series B: Series, Vol. 84

It is a pleasure to write a few words as an introduction to the proceedings of the 1980 NATO ASI on "Physical Processes in Laser­ Naterial Interaction." This ASI is the ninth course of a series devoted to lasers and their applications, held under the responsibility of the Quantum Electronics Division of the European Physical Society, and for this reason known as the "Europhysics School of Quantum Electronics." Since 1971 the School has been operating with the joint direc­ tion of myself as representative of the academic research, and Dr. D. Roess (formerly with Siemens AEG, Munich, and now with Sick, Optik und Electronik, GmbH, Munich) for the industrial applications. Indeed the aim of the School is to alternate fundamental and applied frontier topics in the area of quantum electronics and modern optics, in order to introduce young research people from universities and industrial R&D laboratories to the new aspects of research opened by the laser.

Lectures.- I.1 Characteristics of Laser Beams for Machining.- I.2 Coupling of Laser Radiation to Metals and Semiconductors.- I.3 Laser Heating of Solids.- I.4 Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Laser Induced Structure Changes.- I.5 CO2 Laser Materials Processing.- I.6 Hardening and Alloying of Steel Surfaces by High-Power Laser Beams.- I.7 Laser Annealing of Semiconductors.- I.8 Laser Annealing of Semiconductors Devices.- Seminars.- II.1 Handling of High Power Beams for Laser Metal Working Systems.- II.2 Metal Processing at Culham.- II.3 Time Dependent Effects in Laser Heating of Organic Materials.- II.4 Ion Beam Analysis of Near Surface Regions.- II.5 Shaping Ceramics with a Continuous Wave Carbon Dioxide Laser.- II.6 Laser-Induced Structural Changes in Si-Metal Thin Films.- II.7 Laser Ordering in Elemental Semiconducting Films.- II.8 Laser Induced Structural Changes in the Bulk and at Defect Sites in Semiconductors.- II.9 Intensity Dependent Absorption in Semiconductors.- II.10 Theoretical Aspects of Interaction of Laser Radiation with Hot Electrons in Solids.- II.11 Impurity Clouds in Silicon and Germanium.- II.12 Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells.- II.13 Pulsed Electron Beam Applications for Semiconductor Annealing.- Contributions.- III.1 Laser Chemical Vapor Deposition.- III.2 Cutting with CO2-Lasers in the Automobile Industry.- III.3 Induced Effects of a Laser Pulse on Defects and Disorder Creation in Some Ordered Alloys.- III.4 Supersaturated Solid Solution in Ion Implanted Semiconductors.- III.5 Thin Film Reaction Induced by CW Scanned Laser and E –Beam.- III.6 Physico-Chemical Basis of Laser Lithography.