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    Properties of ns-laser processed polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)
    (Bristol : IOP Publ., 2016) Atanasov, P.A.; Stankova, N.E.; Nedyalkov, N.N.; Stoyanchov, T.R.; Nikov, R.G.; Fukata, N.; Gerlach, J.W.; Hirsch, D.; Rauschenbach, B.
    The medical-grade polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) elastomer is a widely used biomaterial in medicine and for preparation of high-tech devices because of its remarkable properties. In this work, we present the experimental results on drilling holes on the PDMS surface by using ultraviolet, visible or near-infrared ns-laser pulses and on studying the changes of the chemical composition and structure inside the processed areas. The material in the zone of the holes is studied by XRD, ?-Raman analyses and 3D laser microscopy in order to obtain information on the influence of different processing laser parameters, as wavelength, fluence and number of consecutive pulses on the material transformation and its modification.
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    Electronic transitions and dielectric function tensor of a YMnO3 single crystal in the NIR-VUV spectral range
    (London [u.a.] : Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014) Schmidt-Grund, R.; Richter, S.; Ebbinghaus, S.G.; Lorenz, M.; Bundesmann, C.; Grundmann, M.
    We present optical properties in the near-infrared to vacuum-ultraviolet spectral range of hexagonal YMnO3. The high-quality (110)-oriented bulk single crystal was grown by the optical floating zone technique. We have determined the tensor of the dielectric function by means of Mueller matrix ellipsometry in the wide spectral range (0.5-9.15) eV. For the spectral range below 5.4 eV, we present much more precise data compared to previous reports. For higher energies no experimental reports were given previously. The experimental dielectric function of YMnO3 agrees generally with theoretical calculations. We found the well known transitions involving hybridized oxygen-Mn states and Mn-3d states to be spectrally localized with a homogeneous Lorentzian lineshape. At energies above these transitions, we observe pseudo-transparent points where for each of the principal diagonal elements of the dielectric function tensor the imaginary part approaches zero but at different photon energies. These are followed at the onset of the high-absorption spectral range by parabolic direct band-band transitions which have not been reported so far.