“…Silver thin films solution deposited on glass substrate were transferred onto diverse receiver substrates such as Si, glass, and plastics by a spatially modulated Nd:YAG pulsed laser beam (1064 nm, 6 ns pulse width) incident from the backside of the glass substrate. Our approach is fundamentally based on the laser-induced thermal desorption (LITD) of particles [15][16][17][18][19]. Particles adhered to the surface can be desorbed when the thermo-elastic force, caused by rapid thermal expansion of the particle and/or the surface resulting from a pulsed laser irradiation, exceeds the adhesive force (predominantly van der Waals force) between the particle and the surface [15,16].…”