TY - JOUR A1 - Bonse, Jörn A1 - Sturm, Heinz A1 - Schmidt, Dieter A1 - Kautek, Wolfgang T1 - Chemical, morphological and accumulation phenomena in ultrashort-pulse laser ablation of TiN in air JF - Applied physics A N2 - Ultrashort-pulse laser ablation (F=130 fs, 5=800 nm, repetition rate 2-20 Hz) of titanium nitride was investigated for laser fluences between 0.3 and 4.5 J/cm2 using the direct focusing technique in air. The influence of the laser pulse number and the peak fluence was investigated by means of several surface analytical techniques (optical microscopy, dynamic friction atomic force microscopy, scanning Auger electron microscopy and small-spot electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis). The correlation of the results about optical, physical and chemical properties of the irradiated areas allows us to propose a simple oxidation model, which explains different observed phenomena associated with surface damage such as mound formation and crater widening and clarifies the incubation behavior reported earlier for this material. PY - 2000 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s003390000585 SN - 0947-8396 VL - 71 IS - 6 SP - 657 EP - 665 PB - Springer CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-1067 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -