Ablation Animations
Published articles with animations
- Elucidating the thermal, chemical, and mechanical mechanisms of ultraviolet ablation in polymethyl methacrylate via molecular dynamics simulations, P.F. Conforti, M. Prasad, and B.J. Garrison, Acc. Chem. Res. 41 (8), 915-924, 2008. (This publication contains two computer animations.) DOI:10.1021/ar700278y
- On the correlation between the photoexcitation pathways and the critical energies required for ablation of poly(methyl methacrylate): A molecular dynamics study, P.F. Conforti, M. Prasad, and B.J. Garrison, J. Appl. Phys. 103, 103114, 2008. DOI:10.1063/1.2921800.(This publication contains three computer animations.)
Animated sequences of snapshots from large-scale 3-dimensional molecular dynamics simulations of laser ablation
Thermal Confinement Regime, 150 ps laser pulses |
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Simulation at fluence that is 1.75 times the threshold for ablation
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Simulation at fluence just above the threshold for ablation
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A detailed discussion of the simulations shown in this page is given in [ L. V. Zhigilei and B. J. Garrison, Microscopic Mechanisms of Laser Ablation of Organic Solids in the Thermal and Stress Confinement Irradiation Regimes, J. Appl. Phys. 88, 1281-1298 (2000), Full Text: PDF].