Growth of micrometric oxide layers to explore laser decontamination of metallic surfaces Luisa Carvalho, Wilfried Pacquentin, Michel Tabarant, Hicham Maskrot and Alexandre Semerok EPJ Nuclear Sci. Technol., 3 (2017) 30 Published online: 03 November 2017 DOI: 10.1051/epjn/2017027