Areas of expertise

• Lasers And Quantum Electronics 510202
• Condensed Matter Characterisation Technique Development 510401
• Condensed Matter Imaging 510402
• Structural Properties Of Condensed Matter 510406

Research interests

Researcher's projects

Available student projects

Publications

• Woodfield, P, Rode, A, Dao, D et al. 2024, 'Optical penetration models for practical prediction of femtosecond laser ablation of dental hard tissue', Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 371-381.
• Brand, J, Wain, A, Rode, A et al. 2023, 'Comparison between nanosecond and femtosecond laser pulses for the removal of spray paint from granite surfaces', Journal of Cultural Heritage, vol. 62, pp. 329-338.
• Brand, J, Wain, A, Rode, A et al. 2023, 'Femtosecond pulse laser cleaning of biofilm and dirt: Preserving the Sydney Harbour Bridge', Journal of Cultural Heritage, vol. 60, pp. 86-94.
• Brand, J, Wain, A, Rode, A et al. 2023, 'Towards safe and effective femtosecond laser cleaning for the preservation of historic monuments', Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing, vol. 129, no. 4.
• Brand, J, Maximova, K, Madden, S et al. 2023, 'Femtosecond pulse laser cleaning of Makrana marble', Applied Surface Science, vol. 641, no. 158484.
• Rapp, L, Madden, S, Brand, J et al. 2023, 'Investigation of laser wavelength effect on the ablation of enamel and dentin using femtosecond laser pulses', Scientific Reports, vol. 13, no. 1, p. 20156.
• Brand, J, Wain, A, Rode, A et al. 2022, 'Femtosecond pulse laser cleaning of spray paint from heritage stone surfaces', Optics Express, vol. 30, no. 17, pp. 31122-31135.
• Rapp, L, Madden, S, Rode, A et al. 2022, 'Anesthetic-, irrigation- and pain-free dentistry? The case for a femtosecond laser enabled intraoral robotic device', Frontiers in Dental Medicine, vol. 3.
• Zinnecker, V, Madden, S, Stokes-Griffin, C et al. 2022, 'Ultrashort pulse laser ablation of steel in ambient air', Optics and Laser Technology, vol. 148, p. 9.
• Brand, J, Rode, A, Madden, S et al. 2022, 'Ultrashort pulsed laser ablation of granite for stone conservation', Optics and Laser Technology, vol. 151, p. 9.
• Lavin Varela, S, Madden, S, Yan, K et al. 2022, 'Formation of nanochannels in sapphire with ultrashort Bessel pulses', Optics Express, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 6016-6136.
• Rapp, L, Madden, S, Brand, J et al. 2022, 'Femtosecond laser dentistry for precise and efficient cavity preparation in teeth', Biomedical Optics Express, vol. 13, no. 9, pp. 4559-4571.
• Wain, A, Rode, A, Wilkinson, S et al. 2022, 'Hearts and Homes: The Potential of Conservation Laser Cleaning for Post-disaster Wellbeing and Waste Reduction', Studies in Conservation, vol. 67, no. supp1, pp. 309-318.
• Anand, V, Maksimovic, J, Katkus, T et al. 2021, 'All femtosecond optical pump and x-ray probe: holey-axicon for free electron lasers', Journal of Physics: Photonics, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 1-19.
• Smillie, L, Niihori, M, Rapp, L et al. 2020, 'Exotic silicon phases synthesized through ultrashort laser-induced microexplosion: Characterization with Raman microspectroscopy', Physical Review Materials, vol. 4, no. 9, pp. 1-8.
• Rapp, L, Smillie, L, Gamaly, E et al. 2020, 'High-Pressure Silicon Phase Created by High Power Ultrashort Laser Pulse at the Intensity of 1019 W/cm2', 14th Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO PR 2020), Optical Society of American (OSA), USA.
• Juodkazis, S, Vailionis, A, Gamaly, E et al. 2016, 'Femtosecond laser-induced confined microexplosion: tool for creation high-pressure phases', MRS Advances, vol. 1, no. 17, pp. pp 1149-1155.
• Rapp, L, Gamaly, E, Guist, R et al. 2016, 'Ultrafast laser-induced micro-explosion: Material modification tool', Photonics and Fiber Technology Congress, 2016, Optical Society of American (OSA), Washington United States, pp. 1-2.
• Rapp, L, Haberl, B, Pickard, C et al. 2015, 'Experimental evidence of new tetragonal polymorphs of silicon formed through ultrafast laser-induced confined microexplosion', Nature Communications, vol. 6, no. 7555, p. 10.
• Buividas, R, Aharonovich, I, Senuitinas, G et al. 2015, 'Photoluminescence from voids created by femtosecond-laser pulses inside cubic-BN', Optics Letters, vol. 40, no. 24, pp. 5711-5713.
• Rapp, L, Haberl, B, Bradby, J et al. 2014, 'Ultrafast Laser Induced Confined Microexplosion: A New Route to Form Super-Dense Material Phases', in Veiko, Vadim p., Konov, Vitaly I. (Eds.) (ed.), Fundamentals of Laser-Assisted Micro- and Nanotechnologies, Springer International Publishing AG, Berlin, pp. 3-26.
• Rapp, L, Haberl, B, Bradby, J et al. 2014, 'Confined micro-explosion induced by ultrashort laser pulse at SiO2/Si interface', Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing, vol. 114, no. 1, pp. 33-43.
• Rapp, L, Haberl, B, Pickard, C et al. 2014, 'Experimental observation for new polymorphs of silicon formed through ultrafast-laser-induced microexplosion', 2014 IEEE International Conference Laser Optics, LO 2014, IEEE Computer Society, St Petersburg Russia, p. 1.
• Rapp, L, Haberl, B, Bradby, J et al. 2013, 'Selective localised modifications of silicon crystal by ultrafast laser induced micro-explosion', XVIII Laser Applications in Microelectronic and Optoelectronic Manufacturing LAMOM 2013, ed. Xianfan Xu, Guido Hennig, Yoshiki Nakata, Stephan W. Roth,, SPIE, Washington, pp. 1-6.
• Rapp, L, Haberl, B, Bradby, J et al. 2013, 'Evidence of new high-pressure silicon phases in Fs-laser induced confined microexplosion', CLEO: Science and Innovations, CLEO_SI 2013, Optical Society of American (OSA), San Jose, CA, p. 2.
• Gamaly, E, Rapp, L, Roppo, V et al 2013, 'Generation of high energy density by fs-laser-induced confined microexplosion', New Journal of Physics, vol. 15, pp. 025018.
• Abdou Karim Diallo, Ludovic Rapp, Sébastien Nénon, Anne Patricia Alloncle, Christine Videlot-Ackermann, Philippe Delaporte, Frédéric Fages Top gate copper phthalocyanine thin film transistors with laser-printed dielectric Synthetic Metals, 161 (2011) 888-893
• Ludovic Rapp, Abdou Karim Diallo, Sébastien Nénon, Anne Patricia Alloncle, Christine Videlot-Ackermann, Frédéric Fages, Matthias Nagel, Thomas Lippert, Philippe Delaporte Laser printing of a semiconducting oligomer as active layer in organic thin film transistors: impact of a protecting triazene layer Thin Solid Film
• Ludovic Rapp, Anne Patricia Alloncle, Julie Ailuno, Philippe Delaporte Impression par laser UV picoseconde pour la micro-électronique organique EDP Sciences, uvx2010 (2011) 3-9
• Ludovic Rapp, Anne Patricia Alloncle, Philippe Delaporte Laser printing of organic polymers Applied Surface Science
• Ludovic Rapp, Anne Patricia Alloncle, Sébastien Nénon, Matthias Nagel, Thomas Lippert, Christine Videlot-Ackermann, Frédéric Fages, Philippe Delaporte Improvement in semiconductor laser printing using sacrificial protecting layer for Organic Thin-film Transistors fabrication Applied Surface Science 257 (2011) 5245-5249
• Ludovic Rapp, Julie Ailuno, Anne Patricia Alloncle, Philippe Delaporte Pulsed-laser printing of silver nanoparticles ink: control of morphological properties Optics Express, (2011)
• Ludovic Rapp, Julie Ailuno, Anne Patricia Alloncle, Sébastien Nénon, Christine Videlot-Ackermann, Frédéric Fages, Philippe Delaporte Laser printing of n- and p-type semiconductors for complex organic thin film transistors EDP Sciences, uvx2010 (2011) 221-225
• Ludovic Rapp, Sébastien Nénon, Anne Patricia Alloncle, Christine Videlot-Ackermann, Frédéric Fages, Philippe Delaporte Multilayer Laser Printing for Organic Thin Film Transistor Applied Surface Science 257 (2011) 5152-5155
• Ph. Delaporte, A.-P. Alloncle, M. Benetti, C. Boutopoulos, D. Cannata, F. Di Pietrantonio, V. Dinca, M. Dinescu, R. Eason, M. Feinaugle, J.-M. Fernández-Pradas, M. T. Giardi, K. Kaur, T. Lippert, J.-L. Morenza, M. Nagel, F. Nüesch, A. Palla-Papavlu, L. Rapp, P. Serra, J. Shaw-Stewart, C. L Sones, E. Verona, I. Zergioti e-LIFT : a laser printing technology for organic electronics Proceedings of LOPE-C (2011) ISBN 978-3-00-034957-7, 13-17
• James Shaw Stewart, Romain Fardel, Matthias Nagel, Philippe Delaporte, Ludovic Rapp, Cristophe Cibert, Anne Patricia Alloncle, Frank Nuesch, Thomas Lippert, Alexander Wokaun The effect of laser length upon laser-induced forward transfer using a triazene polymer as a dynamic release layer Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials, 12, 3 (2010) 605-609
• Ludovic Rapp, Abdou Karim Diallo, Anne Patricia Alloncle, Sébastien Nénon, Christine Videlot-Ackermann, Frédéric Fages, Philippe Delaporte Laser Printing of P-type and N-type Organic Thin Film Transistors Proceedings of LOPE-C (2010) ISBN 978-3-00-029955-1, 161-164
• Ludovic Rapp, Anne Patricia Alloncle, Abdou Karim Diallo, Philippe Delaporte, Sébastien Nénon, Christine Videlot-Ackermann, Frédéric Fages Laser printing of organic insulator and semiconductor based thin films for transistor applications Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. (2010) vol. 1270 1270-II11-10
• Ludovic Rapp, Anne Patricia Alloncle, Abdou Karim Diallo, Sébastien Nénon, Christine Videlot-Ackermann, Frédéric Fages, Philippe Delaporte Pulsed-laser printing process for Organic Thin-Film Transistor fabrication AIP Conference Proceeding 1278 (2010) 824-831
• Ludovic Rapp, Abdou Karim Diallo, Anne Patricia Alloncle, Christine Videlot-Ackermann, Frédéric Fages, Philippe Delaporte, Applied Physics Letters 95, 171109 (2009)
• Ludovic Rapp, Abdou Karim Diallo, Anne Patricia Alloncle, Philippe Delaporte, Sébastien Nénon, Christine Videlot-Ackermann, Frédéric Fages, Matthias Nagel, Thomas Lippert Organic Thin Film Transistor fabrication by Laser-Induced Forward Transfer technique Proceedings of LOPE-C (2009) ISBN 978-3-00-028063-4
• Ludovic Rapp, Christophe Cibert, Anne Patricia Alloncle, Philippe Delaporte Characterization of organic material micro-structures transferred by laser in nanosecond and picosecond regimes, Applied Surface Science 255 (2009) 5439-5443
• Ludovic Rapp, Christophe Cibert, Anne Patricia Alloncle, Philippe Delaporte Study on the transfer induced by laser of organic conducting thin films, EDP Sciences, uvx2008 (2009) 173-176
• Ludovic Rapp, Christophe Cibert, Anne Patricia Alloncle, Philippe Delaporte, Sébastien Nénon, Christine Videlot-Ackermann, Frédéric Fagès Comparative time resolved shadowgraphic imaging studies of nanosecond and picosecond laser transfer of organic materials, Proceedings of SPIE 7131 (2009)
• Philippe Grelu, Ludovic Rapp, Jose M. Soto-Crespo, Nail Akhmediev Dissipative Solitons for real world optical solitons, IEEE Conference Proceeding, (2007) 154-155

Projects and Grants

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• Femtosecond laser processing for mining planning: investigation of laser ablation of the slurry and of the laser effect on rocks (Primary Investigator)
• Restructuring matter with laser pulses at ultra-relativistic intensity: search for new silicon phases (Primary Investigator)
• Ultrashort pulse laser for ultra-hard machine tools processing (Primary Investigator)
• Investigation of the femtosecond laser ablation of various dental materials with near InfraRed (1029 nm) laser wavelength. (Primary Investigator)
• Femtosecond laser cleaning of marble samples from Holy Samadh, Agra, India (Primary Investigator)
• Research consultancy for femtosecond laser treatment in dentistry (Primary Investigator)
• ANCA - 2nd Research consultancy on high power laser for machine tools processing (Primary Investigator)
• Coating Development for High Power MEMS mirror (Secondary Investigator)
• ANCA - Research consultancy on high power laser for machine tools processing (Primary Investigator)
• Research consultancy on high power laser for hands-free dentistry 2021 (Secondary Investigator)
• Research consultancy on high power laser for hands-free dentistry (Secondary Investigator)

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