Book Description:
The book presents the recent advances in studies of phase transitions induced by short laser pulses in solids and the interface solid-liquid. The review is presented of previous and new results of experimental and theoretical description of phase boiling phenomenon under the action of short laser pulses. Time-resolved characterization of the phase transitions induced by short laser pulses in metals in confined geometry is described in details, and the results are compared with classical equation of states of the materials in sub- and super-critical range of parameters. Phase transitions in the films of cryogenic molecular compounds doped with different impurities are thoroughly studied with respect to their use in MALDI and MAPLE processes. Modeling and new experimental data are described on explosive boiling of liquid under laser exposure of its free surface. Novel experimental results are presented on instabilities at the solid-liquid interface exposed to pico- and femtosecond laser pulses. Morphological and optical properties of resulting nanostructures periodic relief are described. Theoretical modeling of instabilities and structures formation under laser exposure is given on the basis of defect-deformational instability. Modeling results are found to be in good agreement with experimental data. The book is of interest for scientists, post-graduate students and engineers working in the field of laser-matter interaction.

Table of Contents:
Preface
Georgy A. Shafeev
(Wave Research Center of A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation)

Chapter 1. Laser-induced surface and bulk near-critical liquid-vapor phase transformations: basic concepts and recent advances
(Sergey I. Kudryashov, P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation) pp.1-62

Chapter 2. Phase transitions induced by nanosecond laser pulses in confined geometry
A.A. Karabutov and A.Yu. Ivochkin (Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation; A.G. Kaptilniy, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russian Federation)pp.63-102

Chapter 3. Phase Transformations in the UV Laser Irradiation of Molecular Cryogenic Solids: Implications for Laser-Based Techniques
(Olga Kokkinaki and Savas Georgiou, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Greece) p.103-134

Chapter 4. Laser-induced photoacoustic and vaporization pressure signals in absorbing condensed matter: new results
(Alexandr A. Samokhin and Nikolai.N.Il'ichev, A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation) pp.135-154

Chapter 5. Nanostructures formation under laser ablation of solids in liquids
(Emmanuel Stratakis , Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research & Technology—Hellas, Greece and Georgy A. Shafeev, Wave Research Center of A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation) pp.155-180

Chapter 6. Laser-induced self-organization of nano- and micro-structures of surface relief via defect-deformational instabilities
Vladimir I.
(Emel'yanov, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation)pp.181-226

Index pp.227-238