Among the many intense light sources excimer lasers have a unique set of properties that place
them at the forefront of tooling for material processing. Their extreme versatility means that
they can be used in many areas of materials science and medicine. But three conditions need to
be fulfilled in order that their versatility be truly appreciated and exploited: the
characteristics and limitations of the sources must be known the basic excimer laser processes
should become reasonably widely known and problems in search of a solution should be clearly
identified. Excimer Lasers covers all three of these points in an instructive and logical way.
Probably for the first time both instrumental and fundamental aspects of excimer laser
interaction with matter are presented side-by-side with examples drawn from the widest range
of materials. The articles gathered here are tutorial in their nature thus making them
suitable for a wide readership from recent graduates and postgraduate students to those
established scientists entering the field all of whom could not find a better nor more
authoritative work with which to start their reading.
