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Dynamics of metal ions during laser-produced plasmas was studied. A 1064 nm, Nd:YAG laser pulse was used to ablate pure Al, Fe, Co, Mo, and Sn samples. Ion flux and velocity were measured using Faraday cup ion collector. Time-of-flight measurements showed decreasing ion flux and ion velocity with increasing atomic weight, and heavy metal ion flux profile exhibited multiple peaks that was not observed in lighter metals. Slow peak was found to follow shifted Maxwell Boltzmann distribution, while the fast peak was found to follow Gaussian distribution. Ion flux angular distribution that was carried out on Mo and Al using fixed laser intensity 2.5 x 10(10) W/cm(2) revealed that the slow ion flux peaks at small angles, that is, close to normal to the target similar to 0 degrees independent of target's atomic weight, and fast ion flux for Mo peaks at large angles similar to 40 degrees measured from the target normal, while it completely absents for Al. This difference in spatial and temporal distribution reveals that the emission mechanism of the fast and slow ions is different. From the slow ion flux angular distribution, the measured plume expansion ratio (plume forward peaking) was 1.90 and 2.10 for Al and Mo, respectively. Moreover, the effect of incident laser intensity on the ion flux emission as well as the emitted ion velocity were investigated using laser intensities varying from 2.5 x 10(10) W/cm(2) to 1.0 x 10(11) W/cm(2). Linear increase of fast ion flux and velocity, and quadratic increase of slow ion flux and velocity were observed. For further understanding of plume dynamics, laser optical emission spectroscopy was used to characterize Sn plasma by measuring the temporal and spatial evolution of plasma electron density N-e and electron temperature T-e. At 3.5mm away from the target, plasma density showed slow decrease with time, however electron temperature was observed to decrease dramatically. The maximum plasma density and temperature occurred at 0.5mm away from target and were measured to be 8.0 x 10(17) cm(-3) and 1.3 eV, respectively. Published by AIP Publishing.
- 出版日期2016-11-7
