Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy and Ultrafast Laser Surface Engineering
This community focuses on using pulsed lasers to analyze material composition and to engineer surface structures, primarily for elemental detection, nanoparticle synthesis, and precision manufacturing.
The work centers on laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) for rapid elemental analysis, often combined with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. A major strand involves ultrafast laser processing, including femtosecond and picosecond laser ablation for creating periodic surface structures, cleaning, and welding. Another significant area is pulsed laser ablation in liquids (PLAL) for synthesizing nanoparticles, particularly from metals like aluminum, copper, and gold. Applications span industrial monitoring, environmental analysis of heavy metals, and the fabrication of thin films and functional coatings. The recurring materials include stainless steel, aluminum alloys, silicon, and various oxide thin films, with methods emphasizing quantitative determination and surface modification.
The largest share of this community's output is found in yttrium research, accounting for 1.8% of all yttrium research, and neodymium research, accounting for 2.4% of all neodymium research. Silicon contributes the highest absolute number of papers within this group, with 1,553 entries.
There are 19,996 papers in this community, published most frequently in Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy, Applied Surface Science, and Optics & Laser Technology.
Recent work continues to refine LIBS for multimodal identification and explainability, while also advancing ultrafast laser micro-welding of brittle optical materials and the synthesis of nanoparticles for biosensing and antibacterial applications.