First All-Union Conference on Laser Metallurgy and Laser-Plasma Processing, Moscow, November 20–22,1984

An opportunity to improve the quality and to impart fundamentally new physicochemical properties to surface layers of inorganic materials by interaction with laser radiation is of major scientific and practical importance in modern metallurgy, machine construction, and leading branches of new technology. The main topics at the First All-Union Conference on Laser Metallurgy and Laser-Plasma Processing were an improvement in the quality of metals for machine construction, protection of metals from corrosion, increase of wear resistance of products, fabrication of integrated microcircuits from semiconductors, and development of energy-saving and ecologically clean manufacturing processes.