Dynamics of pulsed laser ablation of gold in vacuum in the regime of nanostructured film synthesis
- Authors: Starinskiy S.V.1, Shukhov Y.G.1, Bulgakov A.V.1
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Affiliations:
- Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics, Siberian Branch
- Issue: Vol 42, No 4 (2016)
- Pages: 411-414
- Section: Article
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1063-7850/article/view/198714
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785016040258
- ID: 198714
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Abstract
The dynamics of heating and vaporization of gold in vacuum under the action of laser pulses of low intensity, when the main ablation products are neutral particles, is investigated by mass spectrometry and numerical modeling. The laser-ablation plume is found to consist of gold atoms and dimers with kinetic energies considerably higher than their thermal energy upon evaporation. Nanostructured gold films are synthesized by depositing the ablation products onto a substrate. Formation mechanisms of the gold nanostructures and possibilities of controlling their sizes are discussed.
About the authors
S. V. Starinskiy
Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics, Siberian Branch
Email: bulgakov@itp.nsc.ru
Russian Federation, Novosibirsk, 630090
Yu. G. Shukhov
Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics, Siberian Branch
Email: bulgakov@itp.nsc.ru
Russian Federation, Novosibirsk, 630090
A. V. Bulgakov
Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics, Siberian Branch
Author for correspondence.
Email: bulgakov@itp.nsc.ru
Russian Federation, Novosibirsk, 630090