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19 August 1998 Atomic force microscope study of excimer-laser-treated graphite surfaces
Adam Mechler, Peter Heszler, Zoltan Kantor, Tamas Szoerenyi, Zsolt Bor
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Proceedings Volume 3573, OPTIKA '98: 5th Congress on Modern Optics; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.320984
Event: OPTIKA '98: Fifth Congress on Modern Optics, 1998, Budapest, Hungary
Abstract
Treating of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite surface by ArF excimer ((lambda) equals 193 nm) laser pulses above the ablation threshold, in the range of 0.4 and 4 J/cm2 laser fluences was investigated. Atomic force microscopy and area-selective Raman spectroscopy was used for the observation of the surface morphology and determination of the quality of the remaining material. At low (< 0.6 J/cm2) fluence a material removal rate of several monolayer per laser pulse was detected, without changing the quality of the remaining material. Irradiation at high (approximately 2 J/cm2) fluence resulted in ablation rates of the order of 10 nm/pulse and the formation of an approx. 300 nm thick diamond-like carbon film with approx. 50% concentration of the sp3 hybrid-states of carbon. The graphite structure of the laser-modified layer was perfectly recovered upon annealing the irradiated surfaces in air at 650 degree(s)C for 30 minutes.
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Adam Mechler, Peter Heszler, Zoltan Kantor, Tamas Szoerenyi, and Zsolt Bor "Atomic force microscope study of excimer-laser-treated graphite surfaces", Proc. SPIE 3573, OPTIKA '98: 5th Congress on Modern Optics, (19 August 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.320984
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KEYWORDS
Carbon

Excimer lasers

Annealing

Raman spectroscopy

Atomic force microscopy

Laser ablation

Pulsed laser operation

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