TY - CHAP AU - Natarajan Jeyaprakash AU - Che-Hua Yang AU - Manickam Bhuvanesh Kumar ED - Dongfang Yang Y1 - 2020-10-05 PY - 2020 T1 - Laser Machining N2 - Laser ablation refers to the phenomenon in which an intense laser beam irradiates the surface of a solid to induce instant local removal of atoms by a thermal or non-thermal mechanism. Through eight chapters of original research studies and literature reviews written by experts from the international scientific community, this book presents theoretical and experimental aspects of the laser ablation phenomenon for processing material including pulsed laser deposition of thin films, laser surface modification, laser machining and laser nanoparticle formation. It also includes a study of the dynamics of plasmas generated by laser ablation of multi-component materials and an overview of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) and laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) techniques for chemical analysis. BT - Practical Applications of Laser Ablation SP - Ch. 5 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.93779 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.93779 SN - 978-1-83968-304-6 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-24 ER -