Abstract
Time-of-flight mass spectrometry has been used to investigate the mass and velocity distributions of positive ions produced on laser ablation of sapphire with ultrashort (200 fs) laser pulses at a wavelength of 790 nm. Aluminium and oxygen ions were observed with the proportion of singly and doubly charged oxygen ions increasing with increasing number of laser shots for a given laser fluence. The ions have extremely high kinetic energies which is attributed to Coulomb explosion from charged defect sites.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 128-133 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Applied Surface Science |
| Volume | 127-129 |
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| State | Published - May 1998 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was financially supported by the BMBF (13N6591, PROBE I).