1. Growth Twinning and Generation of High-Frequency Surface Nanostructures in Ultrafast Laser-Induced Transient Melting and Resolidification
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Maxim V. Shugaev, Claire Maurice, Stéphanie Reynaud, Florence Garrelie, Xxx Sedao, Florent Pigeon, Jean-Philippe Colombier, Leonid V. Zhigilei, Chengping Wu, Thierry Douillard, Claude Esnouf, Laboratoire Hubert Curien [Saint Etienne] (LHC), Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut d'Optique Graduate School (IOGS), Université de Lyon, Department of Materials Science and Engineering [Charlottesville] (MS), University of Virginia [Charlottesville], Matériaux, ingénierie et science [Villeurbanne] (MATEIS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), Consortium Lyon Saint-Etienne de Microscopie (CLYM), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-École Centrale de Lyon (ECL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM), Laboratoire Georges Friedel (LGF-ENSMSE), École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (Mines Saint-Étienne MSE), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Hubert Curien (LHC), Institut d'Optique Graduate School (IOGS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Virginia, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-École Centrale de Lyon (ECL), and Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)
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Materials science ,Nanostructure ,laser-induced l ,PHASE ,General Physics and Astronomy ,02 engineering and technology ,METAL TARGETS ,01 natural sciences ,Molecular physics ,transient melti ,law.invention ,law ,0103 physical sciences ,General Materials Science ,Irradiation ,ultrafast laser ,010302 applied physics ,General Engineering ,FEMTOSECOND ,AG ,high-frequency ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Laser ,PULSE ,Crystallography ,growth twin ,INDUCED DAMAGE ,SINGLE ,Transmission electron microscopy ,Femtosecond ,[SPI.OPTI]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Optics / Photonic ,NI-AL SYSTEM ,laser-induced p ,BLATION ,ELECTRON ,0210 nano-technology ,Crystal twinning ,Ultrashort pulse ,Single crystal - Abstract
International audience; The structural changes generated in surface regions of single crystal Ni targets by femtosecond laser irradiation are investigated experimentally and computa-tionally for laser fluences that, in the multipulse irradiation regime, produce sub-100 nm high spatial frequency surface structures. Detailed experimental characterization of the irradiated targets combining electron back scattered diffraction analysis with high-resolution transmission electron microscopy reveals the presence of multiple nanoscale twinned domains in the irradiated surface regions of single crystal targets with (111) surface orientation. Atomistic-and continuum-level simulations performed for experimental irradiation conditions reproduce the generation of twinned domains and establish the conditions leading to the formation of growth twin boundaries in the course of the fast transient melting and epitaxial regrowth of the surface regions of the irradiated targets. The observation of growth twins in the irradiated Ni(111) targets provides strong evidence of the role of surface melting and resolidification in the formation of high spatial frequency surface structures. This also suggests that the formation of twinned domains can be used as a sensitive measure of the levels of liquid undercooling achieved in short pulse laser processing of metals.
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- 2016
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