Systematic Comparison of Thermal Annealing and Laser Treatment of TiO2 Thin Films Prepared by Sol-Gel Processing

Laser-induced crystallization of anodic TiO2nanotube layers

“…Although laser treatment of TiO 2 thin lms has been studied intensively using different laser parameters, see ref. [36][37][38][39][40][41][42] and references herein, laser annealing of TNT layers has been less explored. [43][44][45][46][47][48] Furthermore, two additional publications show an additional laser treatment aer thermal annealing as an effective method to increase the charge carrier density on the anatase TiO 2 surface.…”