Energy concentration in electric discharges between particles of semiconducting sulfide minerals under the action of high-power nanosecond pulses

A model for development of electric discharges between particles of sulfide minerals (pyrite) under the action of high-voltage nanosecond pulses is proposed. It is shown that through discharges in a layer of pyrite particles lead to energy concentration in small contact regions between particles; the concentrated energy is sufficiently high for local decomposition (disintegration) of mineral complexes.     

Formation of micro- and nanophases on sulfide mineral surfaces under the effect of nanosecond electromagnetic pulses

The gas outflow from nanosecond breakdown channels of sulfide minerals under high-power electromagnetic pulses is considered with regard to iron and sulfur vapor condensation. New experimental data on the structural and chemical transformations of sulfide mineral surfaces under nanosecond pulse action are reported.     

The role of gas outflow from nanosecond breakdown channels in the electric-pulse discharge disintegration of sulfide minerals

The heated gas outflow from nanosecond breakdown channels of sulfide minerals (pyrite) under high-power electromagnetic pulses is considered. It is shown that the gas outflow from channels can be an additional destructive factor in the processes of the electric-pulse discharge disintegration of fine-disseminated mineral complexes.     

Condensation of matter during gas outflow from nanosecond breakdown channels of sulfide minerals

The gas outflow from nanosecond breakdown channels of sulfide minerals under the effect of high-power electromagnetic pulses is considered, with allowance for the condensation of iron vapors. The condensation of matter in an outflowing jet is shown to be an effective mechanism for structural-chemical transformations of sulfide surfaces.     

Changes in the surface phase composition of sulfide minerals upon irradiation by high-power nanosecond pulses

The effect of high-power (high-voltage) nanosecond pulses on the phase composition and chemical state of atoms of surface layers of sulfide minerals with different semiconductor properties (galenite, molybdenite, and sphalerite) is investigated by means of XPES. Common patterns and characteristic features of the structural phase transformations of sulfide surfaces under the pulsed energetic effect are the formation and growth of a surface layer by the nonstoichiometric sulfur-enriched sulfide phase and Zn and Mo oxides and hydroxides; the staged character of the transformation of sulfur atoms in the composition of galenite and sphalerite surface layers; and the stability of the chemical state of sulfur in the molybdenite composition and lead atoms in the galenite composition.     

On the field-emission properties of sulfide minerals under high-power nanosecond pulses

The mechanism of absorption of the energy of high-power electromagnetic nanosecond pulses due to the field emission from the surface of natural semiconductors is considered. The limitations and possibilities of implementing this mechanism in sulfide minerals (pyrite and arsenopyrite) are demonstrated.     

On the characteristic properties of oxidation of sulfide minerals exposed to nanosecond electromagnetic pulses

High-power nanosecond electromagnetic pulses cause changes in the chemical and phase surface composition of sulfide minerals (pyrrhotite and pentlandite) and their sorption, flotation, and chemical activities. The influence of the conditions and parameters of the electric-pulse effect on the change in the amount of elemental sulfur and iron oxide on the surface of mineral particles, as well as the concentration of iron and sulfoxide ions in the aqueous mineral suspension, has been studied. The parameters of preliminary pulsed treatment of pyrrhotite and pentlandite that lead to improvement of flotation separation of minerals have been determined.     

Increase of Kinetic Energy of Dusty Cluster Particles Due to Parametric Instability Caused by Nanosecond Electric Pulses

Experimental investigations of high voltage nanosecond pulses influence on charged dust particles in low pressure rf–plasma were carried out. Application of repetitive pulses leads to the vertical oscillations of the mi‐croparticles. Evolution of the total kinetic energy for the cluster consisting of 14 particles is investigated. Flat clusters exhibit parametric instabilities of horizontal modes. In the initial phase the kinetic energy oscillates around a certain value and its amplitude grows very slowly. At a certain moment during the instability it goes into the exponential growth phase and then saturates under the effect of repetitive pulses. It is possible if the eigenfrequency is the function of height and the dust particle oscillates vertically in the non uniform electric field (© 2011 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Laser vaporisation of absorbing liquid under transparent cover

Vaporization of absorbing liquid (water) under a transparent solid cover upon exposure to nanosecond pulses of a holmium laser (λ = 2920 nm) is studied using acoustic and optical diagnostics. The features of the optical signal reflected from the liquid–cover interface suggest that a vapor cavity appears at a submicrometer distance from this interface and exists for about one hundred microseconds. An additional acoustic signal appearing after returning the light signal to the initial level is caused by known cavitation effects accompanying vapor cavity fracture and collapse in liquid.     

Time resolved spectra of optical and electrical transient response induced by nanosecond laser pulses in amorphous AgInSbTe films

The phase transition dynamics of amorphous Ag₈In₁₄Sb₅₅Te₂₃ (AIST) thin films induced by single nanosecond laser pulses were studied by transient optical reflectivity and electrical resistance measurements with nanosecond resolution. Phase transition driven by nanosecond laser pulses can be achieved in a proper fluence range on AIST thin films. The results show that phase transition dynamics driven by nanosecond laser pulses was a multi-stage optical evolution process involving melt, solidification, recalescence, and recrystallion. However, it was found that the real-time responses of optical and electrical signals were quite different under the same irradiated condition. The recalescence process reflected by the second rising of optical reflectivity will not result in obvious changes in electrical resistance. The dependence of saturated time determined by optical and electrical evolution curve on laser pulse fluence was compared and analyzed. A two-dimensional percolation model was employed to explain the difference between electrical and optical transient responses.     

Generation of X-ray radiation with a high pulse repetition rate by means of a volume discharge in an open gas diode

The subject of study is ultrashort avalanche-produced electron pulses generated in air under atmospheric pressure. The current amplitude of the pulses behind 45-μm-thick AlBe foil exceeds 100 A, and their FWHM is ≈0.2 ns. The conditions of generation of ultrashort pulses persist at repetition rates as high as 1.5 kHz. A volume discharge initiated in an open coaxial-electrode gas diode by high-voltage nanosecond pulses generates hard (> 60 keV) radiation.     

Laser annealing of silica glass with ion-synthesized copper nanoparticles

The action of KrF excimer laser radiation on the composite material consisting of the silica glass with copper nanoparticles is investigated as a function of the number of nanosecond laser pulses. Metal nanoparticles are synthesized by ion implantation. It is established using optical reflectance measurements of composite layers that, at the initial stage, the irradiation leads to the fragmentation of the largest nanoparticles. Then, after irradiation by several pulses, the particles become larger due to the heating of the glass. The laser treatment for a longer time (several tens and hundreds of pulses) results in the dissociation of nanoparticles into small clusters and individual atoms. The mechanisms responsible for the modification of the composite material under high-power laser radiation are discussed.     

Nonlinear-optical transformation of nanosecond laser pulses and controlled supercontinuum generation in photonic-crystal fibers

Photonic-crystal fibers are shown to allow efficient spectral transformation of nanosecond laser pulses through parametric four-wave mixing and stimulated Raman scattering. Regimes providing highly efficient transformation of nanosecond laser pulses into white-light broadband radiation (supercontinuum) are identified. A strong parametric coupling between Stokes and anti-Stokes Raman sidebands around the wavelength of zero group-velocity dispersion is shown to increase the bandwidth and to improve the spectral quality of supercontinuum radiation.     

Short-laser-pulse-induced photoelectric phenomena and reorientation in nematics activated with ionic dyes

The photoelectric phenomena and orientational nonlinearity induced by nanosecond laser pulses in planar layers of liquid crystals oriented by silicon oxide (SiO) and activated with polymethine dyes were investigated. These phenomena are due to the photogeneration of surface and bulk charges in the liquid crystal cell, their spatial distribution between the grating vector and the beam propagation directions, and the electrohydrodynamic instability.     

Nanosecond pulsed laser ablation of silicon in liquids

Laser fluence and laser shot number are important parameters for pulse laser based micromachining of silicon in liquids. This paper presents laser-induced ablation of silicon in liquids of the dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and the water at different applied laser fluence levels and laser shot numbers. The experimental results are conducted using 15 ns pulsed laser irradiation at 532 nm. The silicon surface morphology of the irradiated spots has an appearance as one can see in porous formation. The surface morphology exhibits a large number of cavities which indicates as bubble nucleation sites. The observed surface morphology shows that the explosive melt expulsion could be a dominant process for the laser ablation of silicon in liquids using nanosecond pulsed laser irradiation at 532 nm. Silicon surface’s ablated diameter growth was measured at different applied laser fluences and shot numbers in both liquid interfaces. A theoretical analysis suggested investigating silicon surface etching in liquid by intense multiple nanosecond laser pulses. It has been assumed that the nanosecond pulsed laser-induced silicon surface modification is due to the process of explosive melt expulsion under the action of the confined plasma-induced pressure or shock wave trapped between the silicon target and the overlying liquid. This analysis allows us to determine the effective lateral interaction zone of ablated solid target related to nanosecond pulsed laser illumination. The theoretical analysis is found in excellent agreement with the experimental measurements of silicon ablated diameter growth in the DMSO and the water interfaces. Multiple-shot laser ablation threshold of silicon is determined. Pulsed energy accumulation model is used to obtain the single-shot ablation threshold of silicon. The smaller ablation threshold value is found in the DMSO, and the incubation effect is also found to be absent.     

纳秒单脉冲激光诱导AgInSbTe薄膜的相变特性

利用磁控溅射法在K9玻璃基底上制备了Ag8In14Sb55Te23(AIST)纳米薄膜,并利用激光抽运-探测技术测量了薄膜的时间分辨反射率变化特性。研究结果表明,在合适能量密度的单脉冲纳秒激光脉冲作用下,AIST薄膜可以快速从沉积非晶态转化为晶态结构,晶化过程包含中间熔化态。在较低能量密度范围内,反射率变化量和晶化时间都随能量密度变化呈线性增加趋势。     

Optoacoustic conversion in suspensions: The competition of mechanisms and statistical characteristics

Optoacoustic conversion in diluted suspensions under the effect of nanosecond laser pulses is considered. The mode of operation with moderate values of the laser fluence is studied theoretically and experimentally. In this mode, a competition of the thermooptical and cavitation mechanisms of sound conversion is observed, which leads to considerable fluctuations of the acoustic response from one laser pulse to another. Analytical expressions for the basic characteristics of the acoustic signal are obtained. A simulation of the statistical characteristics of the cavitation contribution to the signal is performed using the Monte Carlo method. The experiment is based on the use of second harmonic pulses of a YAG laser and test suspensions. The histograms of the amplitudes of acoustic signals can be used to discriminate between the mechanisms of optoacoustic conversion and also can serve as the basis for diagnosing a low content of an insoluble phase in a liquid.     

纳秒脉冲下几种液态介质绝缘性能的比对

利用自行研制的纳秒脉冲实验平台(输出脉冲前沿30 ns,半宽百纳秒)和标准介电强度测试仪,对变压器油、甘油、去离子水、Galden HT200四种液体绝缘介质在直流与纳秒脉冲下的击穿特性进行了实验研究与结果比对,结果表明:在直流与纳秒脉冲下,Galden HT200均具有最高的击穿场强,且两种情况下均比变压器油高出40%以上;纳秒脉冲下,Galden HT200与变压器油的击穿场强均提高6.5~7倍,Galden HT200击穿过程耗时最短(ns量级),其次是变压器油(20 ns),然后依次为甘油(45 ns)和去离子水(70 ns);多次放电后,粘度系数最大的甘油更易在电极间隙处聚集碳化放电产物,粘度系数较小的Galden HT200和去离子水则无明显痕迹,但二者放电过程会产生明显的冲击波,多次放电后易造成间隙电极松动。     

Effects of solvent on nonlinear absorption properties of tetraphenylporphyrin compounds in the nanosecond regime

The nonlinear absorption properties of tetraphenylporphyrins (TPP) in different solvents and excitation intensities are investigated with nanosecond pulses by the Z-scan technique. The nonlinear absorption behaviour observed presents a distinct difference between in solvent mixtures and in pure solvents. A crossover from reverse saturable absorption (RSA) to saturable absorption (SA) and then again to RSA is observed with the increases of excitation intensity in chloroform and pyridine mixed solvents. However, porphyrin molecules in pure solvents show good RSA behaviour under the studied intensity range, no saturation absorption is observed with nanosecond excitation. Excited state absorption parameters and two-photon absorption coefficients are obtained by theoretical fit using rate equations for population densities in a seven-level energy scheme.     

On the liquid explosive boiling on a substrate under action of subnanosecond laser pulse

The conditions and capability of acoustic recording of pressure pulses from explosive boiling of a transparent liquid on an absorbing substrate heated by nanosecond and subnanosecond laser pulses are analyzed.