Pulsed Laser Ablation

Ion N. Mihailescu is university professor and senior scientific researcher, 1st degree, at the National Institute for Lasers, Plasma and Radiation Physics (www.inflpr.ro), Romania. He graduated from the University of Bucharest Faculty of Physics, Romania, in 1969 after majoring in nuclear physics and optics, spectroscopy, and plasma physics and received his PhD from the Central Institute of Physics, Bucharest, Romania, in 1982. He has a large experience in laser interactions, lasers and plasma physics, nanostructured thin-film technology, nanopowder generation and characterization, surface physics and engineering, laser spectroscopy, and materials processing by advanced laser technologies. He is the author of 441 publications, 195 scientific papers published in Proceedings of International Conferences, and 20 books and monographs and has 12 patents. Dr. Mihailescu is the first recipient (1994) of the Galileo Galilei award for outstanding contribution in the field of optics and Doctor Honoris Causa of University Cergy-Pontoise, France (2015).Anna Paola Caricato is professor at the Physics Department E. De Giorgi of the University of Salento, Italy. She received her PhD in physics from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, in 2000. Her principal activities involve the study of laser-matter interaction for the deposition of thin films and nanoparticles by laser ablation for applications in sensors, optoelectronic devices, and solar cells. Particular attention is also devoted to the study of the matrix-assisted pulsed laser evaporation process for the deposition of organic films, polymer multilayers, nanomaterials, and composite films. She is the author of more than 120 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and 6 book chapters and has 2 patents. She has also served as a conference co-chair and committee member for international conferences in laser-matter interactions and applications.