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Femtosecond-Laser Induced Nanostructures in TiO2

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TiO2 nanostructures are important functional materials with a growing number of applications in fields like medicine, photochemistry or photovoltaics. We demonstrate that highly reproducible nanostructures can be generated on the surface of bulk as well as thin film material by exploiting the phenomenon of laser-induced periodic surface structures (LIPSS). The influence of key parameters like pulse number, laser fluence, wavelength, and surface quality on the formation of such nanoripples is discussed. The time-integrated theory of Drude and Sipe is extended by the nonlinear excitation of transparent materials into a transient metal-like state enabling for the effective generation of surface plasmon polaritons.

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  1. Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short-Pulse Spectroscopy, Max-Born-Strasse 2a, D-12489, Berlin, Germany

    Susanta Kumar Das, Hamza Messaoudi, Kiran Dasari & Rüdiger Grunwald

  2. Otto-Schott-Institut für Glaschemie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Fraunhoferstraße 6, 07743, Jena, Germany

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Kumar Das, S., Messaoudi, H., Dasari, K., Seeber, W., Grunwald, R. (2015). Femtosecond-Laser Induced Nanostructures in TiO2 . In: Sakabe, S., Lienau, C., Grunwald, R. (eds) Progress in Nonlinear Nano-Optics. Nano-Optics and Nanophotonics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12217-5_4

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