Process of making components for electronic and optical devices using laser processing including ablation

A process of making an electrical component, an optical component or a combined electrical and optical component, said process comprising:

• pattern illumination-based annealing at a intensity and for a time, at least one material that comprises, prior to said annealing, two or more regions that are amorphous, nanocrystalline, microcrystalline, or crystalline, with the proviso that at least two of said regions are not identical with respect being amorphous, nanocrystalline, microcrystalline, or crystalline, said at least one material comprising a transition metal and an element selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, selenium, phosphorous and mixtures thereof, using a laser or lamp, to form on, within, or on and within said material:
• (i) at least two electronic elements selected from a conductor, semiconductor and an insulator;
• (ii) two or more different conductors having at least one of the following:
• different electrical properties or different optical properties;
• (iii) two or more different semiconductors having at least one of the following:
• different electrical properties or different optical properties;
• or
• (iv) two or more different insulators having at least one of the following:
• different electrical properties or different optical properties;
• said process being performed under one of the following conditions:
• vacuum of less than 100 torr, air, or under a fluid blanket other than air;
• said pattern illumination-based annealing resulting in at least one of a chemical change or structural change, or the removal of material, in at least one of said materials that results in an electrical component, an optical component or a combined electrical and optical component being created to form on, within, or on and within said material.