Heat transfer mechanisms during short-pulse laser heating of two-layer composite thin films

 Using a simple perturbation technique, an analytical investigation is presented for the heat transfer mechanisms during ultrafast laser heating of two-layer composite thin slabs from a microscopic point of view. The composite slab consists of two thin metal films which are in perfect thermal contact. The microscopic parabolic two-step model is adopted to describe the behavior of the composite slab. In the microscopic two-step model, the heating process is modeled by the deposition of radiation energy on electrons, the transport of energy by electrons, and the heating of the material lattice through electron–phonon interactions. The proposed perturbation technique is used when the normalized temperature difference between the solid lattice and the electron gas is relatively a small perturbed quantity. Received on 20 September 2000 / Published online: 29 November 2001