Surface Nanotexturing of Boron-Doped Diamond Films by Ultrashort Laser Pulses
Matteo Mastellone (Istituto Struttura della Materia-CNR (ISM-CNR))
Eleonora Bolli (Istituto Struttura della Materia-CNR (ISM-CNR))
Veronica Valentini (Istituto Struttura della Materia-CNR (ISM-CNR))
Stefano Orlando (Istituto Struttura della Materia-CNR (ISM-CNR))
Antonio Lettino (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
Riccardo Polini (CNR-IMAA)
Josephus Gerardus Buijnsters (TU Delft - Micro and Nano Engineering)
Alessandro Bellucci (Istituto Struttura della Materia-CNR (ISM-CNR))
Daniele Maria Trucchi (Istituto Struttura della Materia-CNR (ISM-CNR))
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Abstract
Polycrystalline boron-doped diamond (BDD) films were surface nanotextured by femtosecond pulsed laser irradiation (100 fs duration, 800 nm wavelength, 1.44 J cm−2 single pulse fluence) to analyse the evolution of induced alterations on the surface morphology and structural properties. The aim was to identify the occurrence of laser-induced periodic surface structures (LIPSS) as a function of the number of pulses released on the unit area. Micro-Raman spectroscopy pointed out an increase in the graphite surface content of the films following the laser irradiation due to the formation of ordered carbon sites with respect to the pristine sample. SEM and AFM surface morphology studies allowed the determination of two different types of surface patterning: narrow but highly irregular ripples without a definite spatial periodicity or long-range order for irradiations with relatively low accumulated fluences (<14.4 J cm−2) and coarse but highly regular LIPSS with a spatial periodicity of approximately 630 nm ± 30 nm for higher fluences up to 230.4 J cm−2.
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