Contents
1 Introduction to Laser Micro-to-Nano Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . .
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Anming Hu, Ruozhou Li, Shi Bai, Yongchao Yu, Weiping Zhou,
Denzel Bridges, Yangbao Deng, and Lingyue Zhang
1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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1.2 Laser-Matter Interaction: Absorption and Ionization . . . . . . . . .
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1.3 Laser-Nanomaterial Interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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1.3.1 Scaling Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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1.3.2 Surface Plasmonic Excitation of Nanoparticles . . . . . . . 11
1.3.3 Propagation Along an Optical Nanofiber (Optical
Mode) and Metallic Nanowire (Plasmonic Mode) . . . . . 16
1.3.4 Nanocomposite Absorption and Photothermal Effect . . . 23
1.4 Photothermal Versus Photonic Nonthermal Manufacturing . . . . 25
1.4.1 Photonic Sintering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
1.4.2 Ultrafast Laser Versus Long Pulsed and Continue
Wave Laser Direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
1.4.3 Photonic Reduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
1.4.4 Laser Direct Writing and Interference Lithography . . . . 40
1.4.5 Laser Ablation, Trimming, and Drilling . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
1.5 Micro-to-Nano Manipulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
1.6 Nanojoining and Molecular Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
1.6.1 Overview of Nanojoining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
1.6.2 Molecular Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
1.6.3 1D (Nanowire and Nanotube) and 2D Material
in Molecular Electrodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
1.6.4 Fabrication of Molecular Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
1.7 Ultrafast Laser Near- and Super-Resolution Manufacturing . . . . 58
1.7.1 Two-Photon Direct Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
1.7.2 Near-Field Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
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