Advances in Laser Processing of Materials: Modeling & Simulation, Imaging & Measurement, Techniques & Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Manufacturing Processes and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2023) | Viewed by 294
Special Issue Editors
Interests: multiscale/multiphysics modeling of laser processing; laser micro/nano-fabrication; heat transfer and energy conversion
Interests: laser micro/nano-fabrication; process optimization in laser micro-machining; laser machining system
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Interests: laser hybrid manufacturing; laser surface modification; ultrasonic hybrid manufacturing
Interests: materials physics; thermodynamics; materials science
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the continuous miniaturization and rising degree of integration of micro-/nano-devices, the need to precisely manufacture a given geometric design becomes crucially important. In the past decades, the rapid development of pulsed laser technology with ultra-high peak intensity has brought about small collateral thermal damage. Owing to the merit of the contactless processing of materials using focused laser fluence, diverse micro/nano-structures can be manufactured flexibly. In this way, the laser processing of materials offers to fulfill the goal of consistency between design and product. Meanwhile, a series of complex phenomena (nonlinear laser energy absorption, free electron ionization, electron thermalization, electron-phonon coupled energy transport, lattice melting, material vaporization, and phase explosion, etc.) occur during the laser processing of materials, hindering the broad application of precisely controllable laser micro/nano-manufacture.
Therefore, the object of this Special Issue is to provide a state-of-the-art collection of recent work focusing on the laser processing of materials. The scope of this Special Issue covers (but is not limited to):
(1) Modeling and simulation of laser material interaction. Examples include ab initio calculation, molecular dynamics simulation, two-temperature model, computational fluid dynamics solution, etc.
(2) Real-time imaging and measurement of laser processing scenarios. Examples include pump-probe spatiotemporal micro-/nanoscopy, and cooperation with ultrafast electron diffraction, etc.
(3) Technic to optimize the laser manufacturing processes (such as burst mode processing, direct laser interference patterning, Gaussian-Bessel-beam spatial shaping, etc.) and applications (such as in electronics, optics, biomedical, aerospace, etc.) for laser-generated products.
We sincerely hope this Special Issue sheds light upon further advances in the laser processing of materials. We look forward to reviewing contributions from both the academic and industrial fields!
Dr. Pengfei Ji
Dr. Xingsheng Wang
Dr. Zhehe Yao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- laser processing of materials
- modeling and simulation
- imaging and measurement
- technique and application
- micro-/nanofabrication
- additive manufacturing
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