title: Nanofabrication with pulsed lasers.
abstract: An overview of pulsed laser-assisted methods for nanofabrication, which are currently developed in our Institute (LP3), is presented. The methods compass a variety of possibilities for material nanostructuring offered by laser-matter interactions and imply either the nanostructuring of the laser-illuminated surface itself, as in cases of direct laser ablation or laser plasma-assisted treatment of semiconductors to form light-absorbing and light-emitting nano-architectures, as well as periodic nanoarrays, or laser-assisted production of nanoclusters and their controlled growth in gaseous or liquid medium to form nanostructured films or colloidal nanoparticles. Nanomaterials synthesized by laser-assisted methods have a variety of unique properties, not reproducible by any other route, and are of importance for photovoltaics, optoelectronics, biological sensing, imaging and therapeutics.
authors.affiliation: Lasers, Plasmas et Procédés Photoniques (LP3, UMR 6182 CNRS), Université de la Méditerranée, Campus de Luminy-case 917, 13288, Marseille Cedex 9, France. kabashin@lp3.univ-mrs.fr.
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