Abstract
The authors regret that the printed version of the above article contained an error that propagated into the thermodynamic calculations. The laser spot size of 49.5 ?m, reported in Ref. [1], was the spot size at the focal plane, but the melting experiment was not conducted at the focal plane. The surface of the metal substrate, where melting occurred, was 2.8 mm below the focal plane as a defocused beam was desired. Therefore the correct laser spot size for these measurements is 122.5 ?m, based on a calculation of the beam diameter (1/e~2) and was recently published in a corrigendum to the original work [2].
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