Abstract
Abstract Through laser ablation processes, significant amounts of particles can be generated from a surface of cement, stainless steel, or alumina. The minimal laser fluence (mJ cm - 2 ), or threshold energy, required to produce a detectable amount of particles (100 particles cm - 3 ) was investigated experimentally. The threshold energy was wavelength-dependent and was found to be the greatest for a pure material, alumina, then for a complex mixture, cement, and least for a simple mixture, stainless steel. The threshold energy requirement for three tested materials was found to be significantly higher for the IR (1064-nm) laser; it was 2.4–10.1 times higher than for the UV (266-nm) laser and 9.1–15.2 times higher than for the Vis (532-nm) laser. Interestingly, the UV laser has a higher threshold energy (1.5–4.0 times higher) than the Vis does. A log–log linear model was found to correlate particle production with the laser fluence of all three wavelengths. Of the three materials tested, stainless steel produced the most particles at a given fluence while alumina produced the fewest. Hypotheses of the particle generation mechanisms based upon the observations are also given here.
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