Laser pulses can be focused to deliver wavelength-scale voxels of energy that can ablate or modify materials precisely on 2D surfaces or in 3D bulks. Recent advances in ultrafast laser technologies brings ultrashort pulse duration with extremely high peak intensity. The ultrafast laser-matter interactions allow versatile material properties to be created or adjusted including the mechanical, optical, chemical, and electronic properties. These unique advantages make the laser a powerful tool for micro/nano-scale manufacturing, opening new possibilities that are impossible by lithography or traditional mechanical machining approaches. Tangible impacts in both academic research and industrial applications have been demonstrated in many fields such as electronics fabrication, photonic devices, medical surgeries, lab-on-a-chip, quantum devices, and so on.
Recent developments of optical and laser technologies allow exciting new possibilities for laser manufacturing applications. These include the advent of high power, high energy and other extreme laser technologies as well as solutions for high-repetition-rate burst operation and complex temporal/spatial shaping. These new possibilities offer opportunities to study and apply new laser-matter interaction mechanisms in the prospect to meet the next challenges in laser micro/nano-scale manufacturing. This Research Topic focuses on the recent progresses of laser micro/nano manufacturing techniques and their applications. This topic will create a possibility to openly discuss the recent state-of-the-art and push forward the advancement of the field.
Areas to be covered in this Research Topic include but are not limited to the following:
3D Volume Processing of Transparent Materials
Spatial/Temporal Beam Shaping for Laser Processing
Laser Induced Micro/nano Structures
Surface Engineering and Functionalisation
Laser Fabricated Novel Devices
Laser Induced Forward Transfer
Laser Micro-Welding or Micro-Joining
Novel Laser Sources for Laser Processing
High-repetition-rate Burst Modification
Laser Processing with Non-convention Wavelengths
Laser pulses can be focused to deliver wavelength-scale voxels of energy that can ablate or modify materials precisely on 2D surfaces or in 3D bulks. Recent advances in ultrafast laser technologies brings ultrashort pulse duration with extremely high peak intensity. The ultrafast laser-matter interactions allow versatile material properties to be created or adjusted including the mechanical, optical, chemical, and electronic properties. These unique advantages make the laser a powerful tool for micro/nano-scale manufacturing, opening new possibilities that are impossible by lithography or traditional mechanical machining approaches. Tangible impacts in both academic research and industrial applications have been demonstrated in many fields such as electronics fabrication, photonic devices, medical surgeries, lab-on-a-chip, quantum devices, and so on.
Recent developments of optical and laser technologies allow exciting new possibilities for laser manufacturing applications. These include the advent of high power, high energy and other extreme laser technologies as well as solutions for high-repetition-rate burst operation and complex temporal/spatial shaping. These new possibilities offer opportunities to study and apply new laser-matter interaction mechanisms in the prospect to meet the next challenges in laser micro/nano-scale manufacturing. This Research Topic focuses on the recent progresses of laser micro/nano manufacturing techniques and their applications. This topic will create a possibility to openly discuss the recent state-of-the-art and push forward the advancement of the field.
Areas to be covered in this Research Topic include but are not limited to the following:
3D Volume Processing of Transparent Materials
Spatial/Temporal Beam Shaping for Laser Processing
Laser Induced Micro/nano Structures
Surface Engineering and Functionalisation
Laser Fabricated Novel Devices
Laser Induced Forward Transfer
Laser Micro-Welding or Micro-Joining
Novel Laser Sources for Laser Processing
High-repetition-rate Burst Modification
Laser Processing with Non-convention Wavelengths
