TY - GEN A1 - Bonse, Jörn T1 - Chemical effects during the formation of femtosecond laser-induced periodic surface structures N2 - The processing of laser-induced periodic surface structures (LIPSS, ripples) on metals and semiconductors in ambient air is usually accompanied by superficial oxidation effects – a fact that is widely neglected in the current literature. In this contribution, chemical, structural, and mechanical alterations in the formation of femtosecond LIPSS are characterized by a variety of surface analytical techniques, including energy dispersive X-ray analyses (EDX), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), micro Raman spectroscopy (µ-RS), and depth-profiling Auger electron microscopy (AEM). Alternative routes of electrochemical and thermal oxidation allow to qualify the relevance of superficial oxidation effects on the tribological performance in oil lubricated reciprocating sliding tribological tests (RSTT). It is revealed that the fs-laser processing of near-wavelength sized LIPSS on metals leads to the formation of a few hundreds of nanometers thick graded oxide layers, consisting mainly of amorphous oxides. Regardless of reduced hardness and limited thickness, this nanostructured surface layer efficiently prevents a direct metal-to-metal contact in the RSTT and may also act as an anchor layer for specific wear-reducing additives contained in the used engine oil. T2 - EMRS Spring Meeting 2019, Symposium V “Laser interactions with materials: from fundamentals to applications" CY - Nice, France DA - 27.05.2019 KW - Laser-induced periodic surface structures (LIPSS) KW - Femtosecond laser KW - Oxidation KW - Tribology PY - 2019 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/48127 AN - OPUS4-48127 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany