Transport properties of high temperature air components: A review

The methods for the calculation of the transport properties of high temperature gases are reviewed from the points of view of both kinetic theory and transport cross sections. Particular emphasis is given to the poor convergence of the Chapman-Enskog method for calculating the thermal conductivity of free electrons and of the possible sources of errors when applying well known simplified formulae for calculating the translational thermal conductivity of heavy components and the viscosity of partially ionized gases. The transport cross sections (collision integrals) of high temperature air components are then discussed by comparing old and new calculations particularly emphasizing atom-atom, atom-molecule and atom-ion interactions. Special consideration is dedicated to the knowledge of transport cross sections of electronically excited states. The role of inelastic processes in affecting the transport cross sections is also briefly discussed. Finally the possibility to extend the results to non equilibrium situations is analysed.     

A critical evaluation of low-energy electron impact cross sections for plasma processing modeling. II: Cl4, SiH4, and CH4

The available information on low-energy electron impact cross sections for CF₄, SiH₄, and CHl is reviewed and critically evaluated. Of interest are the cross sections for momentum transfer, rotational, vibrational, and electronic excitation, dissociation, and attachment and ionization. Recommended cross sections are identified where feasible. Most of the cross sections reviewed have been determined by swarm techniques whereby cross sections are adjusted based on a comparison of predicted and measured electron transport, or swarm, coefficients.     

Nozzle optimization for dissociated species transport in low pressure plasma chemical vapor deposition

Numerical simulation has been used to study the fluid dynamics and chemical kinetics in a supersonic nozzle situated downstream of a plasma reactor. To assist in system scale-up and optimization, effective nozzle design can help in maximizing the transport of chemically active species to the substrate. This paper examines the chemical non-equilibrium of the flow, the effect of different flow parameters, and the effect of different nozzle geometries. A three species hydrogen-argon gas mixture was modeled with finite dissociation and recombination. Non-equilibrium transport and thermodynamic mixture properties based on species pair collision cross sections were implemented. Running a plasma torch off design power can significantly alter power losses through the nozzle wall and subsequently change the species distribution at the nozzle exit. Decreasing the effective nozzle throat diameter can notably decrease atomic concentrations. Small changes in upstream or downstream pressures have a negligible effect on supersonic species transport through the nozzle. Flow separation can be avoided by correctly designing the divergent portion of the nozzle.     

Monte Carlo Simulation of Electron Transport and X-Ray Generation. I. Electron Elastic and Inelastic Scattering

We present different theoretical approaches to determine differential cross sections for elastic and inelastic interactions of electrons. These cross sections are the basic ingredients for accurate Monte Carlo simulation of electron transport in matter. The considered models range from simple analytical approximations employed in early calculations to purely numerical differential cross sections described by large databases calculated with state-of-the-art theory.     

A critical evaluation of low-energy electron impact cross sections for plasma processing modeling. I: Cl2, F2, and HCl

The available information on low-energy electron impact cross sections for Cl₂, F₂, and HCAl is reviewed and critically evaluated. Of interest are the cross sections for momentum transfer; rotational, vibrational, and electronic excitation (with possible dissociation); and attachment and ionization. The bulk of the data available for these molecules are on dissociative attachment, as that is the property, that has been of greatest interest in applications and is relatively easy to measure. Much of the process of critical evaluation is performed by computing electron transport, or swarm, coefficients using the published cross sections and comparing with published measurements. What little is known about electronic excitation or dissociation processes is theoretical or even guessed at using analogies to processes in other molecules. Recommended cross sections are identified where feasible.     

Transport properties of boron and aluminum

Transport cross sections and collision integrals are tabulated for a wide range of energies and temperatures for the interactions B–B and Al–Al. For aluminum, a semiclassical approximation was used to determine the scattering phase shifts from which the transport cross sections were calculated. For boron, the smaller reduced mass and the deep potential wells required the phase shifts at lower energies to be determined from a numerical solution of the time-independent Schroedinger equation; the semiclassical approximation was used at higher energies where the two methods agree. The variations of the collision integrals for viscosity and diffusion are presented graphically as a function of temperature. The results are applied to estimate the transport properties of gallium. Received: 9 July 1999 / Accepted: 18 August 1999 / Published online: 2 November 1999     

Transient electron mobilities in ethene and cyclopropane

The transient electron mobility in ethene and cyclopropane is determined with a recently developed kinetic theory of electron transport in gaseous moderators for which elastic collisions dominate the relaxation. The momentum transfer cross sections for electron-ethene and electron-cyclopropane collisions, reported recently by Gee and Freeman, indicate pronounced Ramsauer-Townsend minima. The calculations carried out in the present paper with these cross sections demonstrate that the transient electron mobilities can be negative, an effect which reflects the presence of the Ramsauer-Townsend minima in the momentum transfer cross sections. The results of the present study suggest that measurements of the transient mobility should provide a more definitive test of the existence of Ramsauer minima than are measurements of the temperature dependence of the thermal mobility.     

Electron-impact ionization of CCl4 and CCl2F2

Absolute partial and total cross sections for electron-impact ionization of CCl4 and CCl2F2 are reported for electron energies from threshold to 1000 eV. The product ions are mass analyzed using a time-of-flight mass spectrometer and detected with a position-sensitive detector whose output demonstrates that all product ion species are collected with equal efficiency irrespective of their initial kinetic energies. Data are presented for production of CCl3(+), CCl2(+), CCl+, C+, Cl2(+), and CCl3(2+) from CCl4; and for production of CCl(2)F+, CClF2(+), CClF(+), (CCl+ + CF2(+)), Cl+, CF+, F+, and C+ from CCl2F2. Data are also reported for formation of (CCl2(+),Cl+) and (CCl+, Cl+) ion pairs from CCl4. The total cross section for each target is obtained as the sum of the partial cross sections. The overall uncertainty in the absolute cross sections for most of the singly charged ions is +/- 5-7 %. The present partial cross sections for lighter fragment ions are found to be considerably greater than had been previously reported but the most recent total cross section measurements agree well with those reported here. Neither the binary-encounter-Bethe theory nor the Deutsch-Mark theory reproduces the experimental cross sections correctly for both targets.     

New exchange-Coulomb N2-Ar potential-energy surface and its comparison with other recent N2-Ar potential-energy surfaces

The reliability of five N2-Ar potential-energy surfaces in representing the N2-Ar interaction has been investigated by comparing their abilities to reproduce a variety of experimental results, including interaction second viral coefficients, bulk transport properties, relaxation phenomena, differential scattering cross sections, and the microwave and infrared spectra of the van der Waals complexes. Four of the surfaces are the result of high-level ab initio quantal calculations; one of them utilized fine tuning by fitting to microwave data. To date, these four potential-energy surfaces have only been tested against experimental microwave data. The fifth potential-energy surface, based upon the exchange-Coulomb potential-energy model for the interaction of closed-shell species, is developed herein: it is a combination of a damped dispersion energy series and ab initio calculations of the Heitler-London interaction energy, and has adjustable parameters determined by requiring essentially simultaneous agreement with selected quality interaction second viral coefficient and microwave data. Comparisons are also made with the predictions of three other very good literature potential-energy surfaces, including the precursor of the new exchange-Coulomb potential-energy surface developed here. Based upon an analysis of a large body of information, the new exchange-Coulomb and microwave-tuned ab initio potential-energy surfaces provide the best representations of the N2-Ar interaction; nevertheless, the other potential-energy surfaces examined still have considerable merit with respect to the prediction of specific properties of the N2-Ar van der Waals complex. Of the two recommended surfaces, the new exchange-Coulomb surface is preferred on balance due to its superior predictions of the effective cross sections related to various relaxation phenomena, and to its reliable, and relatively simple, representation of the long-range part of the potential-energy surface. Moreover, the flexibility still inherent in the exchange-Coulomb potential form can be further exploited, if required, in future studies of the N2-Ar interaction.     

H+O2(n0, j0)→HO+O及C+H2(n0, j0)→CH+H体系选态反应截面的过渡态理论计算

本文用微正则过渡态理论计算了H+O_2(n_0,j_0)→HO+O和C+H_2(n_0, j_0)→CH+H在ab initio势能面上的选态反应截面σ_(n_0,j_0); E.分析了势能面性质对反应截面的影响。计算结果表明, 在指定反应物分子的振动态n_0、转动态j_0时, 两个反应体系的反应截面随相对平动能的增加先是增加后是减小(j_0=1, n_0=0除外); 在给定相对平动能和反应物分子的转动态j_0时, 随反应物分子的振动量子数n_0的增加, 两个体系的选态反应截面均有较显著的增加, 在指定相对平动能和反应物分子的振动态n_0时, H+O_2体系的选态反应截面随j_0的变化较为复杂, 而C+H_2体系则比较简单(j_0=1除外)。对于H+O_2反应体系, 本文得到的反应截面与实验结果及准经典轨迹理论的计算结果符合得很好。     

Accuracy of recent potential energy surfaces for the He-N2 interaction. II. Molecular beam scattering and bulk gas relaxation phenomena

A new semiempirical exchange-Coulomb model potential energy surface for the N(2)-He interaction was reported recently [A. K. Dham et al., J. Chem. Phys. 127, 054302 (2007)] and, using it, the temperature dependence of bulk gas properties of N(2)-He mixtures, such as the second virial coefficient and traditional transport phenomena, most of which depend primarily on the isotropic component of the interaction potential energy surface, was determined. Values of these properties, along with values calculated using two high-quality ab initio potential energy surfaces [C.-H. Hu and A. J. Thakkar, J. Chem. Phys. 104, 2541 (1996); K. Patel et al., ibid 119, 909 (2003)] were compared critically to available experimental data. The present paper reports on the ability of the same three potential energy surfaces to predict state-to-state and total differential cross sections, total integral cross sections, and the temperature dependence of bulk gas relaxation phenomena (including magnetic field effects on transport coefficients). While all three potential energy surfaces give total differential and higher speed integral scattering results that fall within the experimental uncertainties, integral scattering results and state-to-state differential cross section measurements consistently exceed the calculated values. All three surfaces give similar agreement with the relaxation properties of N(2)-He binary mixtures, with the semiempirical exchange-Coulomb model potential energy surface giving slightly better overall agreement with experiment than the two ab initio potential energy surfaces.     

Very large infrared two-photon absorption cross section of asymmetric zinc porphyrin aggregates: Role of intermolecular interaction and donor-acceptor strengths

Very large two-photon absorption (TPA) cross sections at the infrared region have been revealed for J-aggregates of asymmetric zinc porphyrin using quantum-chemical calculation. The TPA properties are evaluated for monomer and aggregates of a series of push-pull porphyrins, whose syntheses are known in the literature. The two-photon absorption cross section can be greatly enhanced by increasing the strengths of the electron donor/acceptor. We also present a quantum-chemical analysis on porphyrin aggregates to understand the role of intermolecular interactions and the relationship between structural and collective nonlinear optical properties. It has been observed that the TPA properties change tremendously as monomers undergo J-aggregation and the magnitudes of TPA cross sections are highly dependent on the nature of aggregates. The importance of our results with respect to the design of photonic and photodynamic therapy materials has been discussed.     

Random-phase approximation for transport cross sections

The random-phase approximation is tested for the first two transport cross sections with several potential functions. Fairly good results are obtained, and the approximation is recommended for exploratory calculations, since it requires very little computational effort.     

Investigation of two-photon absorption properties in branched alkene and alkyne chromophores

Novel alkene and alkyne branched structures have been synthesized, and their two-photon absorption (2PA) properties are reported. This series of alkene and alkyne trimer systems tests the mechanistic approach for enhancing the 2PA process which is usually dictated by the pi-bridging, delocalization length, and corresponding charge transfer on the 2PA cross sections. The results suggest that alkene branched systems have higher 2PA cross sections. While steady-state absorption and emission measurements were not successful in predicting the observed trend of 2PA cross sections, time-resolved measurements have explained the trends observed. It was found that, upon photoexcitation, there is an ultrafast charge localization to an intramolecular charge-transfer (ICT) state, followed by the presence of a solvent and conformationally relaxed ICT state in these branched systems.     

新型双光子吸收化合物的合成、光物理及其在固态分散体系中的性质

通过多步反应制备了三个新型的双光子吸收化合物,测试了它们的光物理性质,发现该系列化合物具有较大的双光子吸收截面,并且随温度降低其双光子吸收截面增大.尤其是化合物TMVDB,其量子效率为0.83,常温时的双光子吸收截面达到1164GM,其双光子吸收截面除以分子量为2.08,表现出了优良的双光子吸收发光性能.进一步将TMVDB掺杂到固体材料中,得到强双光子诱导发光的固体材料.     

Theoretical study of one- and two-photon absorption properties of octupolar D2d and D3 bipyridyl metal complexes

The molecular equilibrium structures, electronic structures, and one- and two-photon absorption (TPA) properties of C2v (Zn(II), Fe(II) and Cu(I)) dipolar and D2d (Zn(II) and Cu(I)) and D3 (Zn(II)) octupolar metal complexes featuring different functionalized bipyridyl ligands have been studied by the ZINDO-SOS method. The calculated results show that one- and two-photon absorption properties of metal complexes are strongly influenced by the nature of the ligands (donor end groups and pi linkers) and metal ions as well as by the symmetry of the complexes. The length of the pi-conjugated backbone, the Lewis acidity of the metal ions, and the increase of ligand-to-metal ratio result in a substantial enhancement of the TPA cross sections of metal complexes. Substitution of C=N and N=N for C=C plays an important role in altering the maximum TPA wavelengths and the maximum TPA cross sections of metal complexes. Of them, the C=N substituted metal complexes have relatively large TPA cross sections. Replacing styryl with thienylvinyl makes the one-photon absorption wavelength red shift and at the same time leads to a great decrease of the maximum TPA cross sections of metal complexes. The possible reason is discussed. In the range 500-1250 nm, octupolar metal complexes exhibit intense TPAs and therefore are promising candidates for TPA materials.     

Absolute photoionization cross sections of two cyclic ketones: cyclopentanone and cyclohexanone

Absolute photoionization cross sections for cyclopentanone and cyclohexanone, as well as partial ionization cross sections for the dissociative ionized fragments, are presented in this investigation. Experiments are performed via a multiplexed photoionization mass spectrometer utilizing vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) synchrotron radiation supplied by the Advanced Light Source of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. These results allow the quantification of these species that is relevant to investigate the kinetics and combustion reactions of potential biofuels. The CBS‐QB3 calculated values for the adiabatic ionization energies agree well with the experimental values, and the identification of possible dissociative fragments is discussed for both systems. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Two-photon fluorescence microscopy imaging of cellular oxidative stress using profluorescent nitroxides

A range of varying chromophore nitroxide free radicals and their nonradical methoxyamine analogues were synthesized and their linear photophysical properties examined. The presence of the proximate free radical masks the chromophore's usual fluorescence emission, and these species are described as profluorescent. Two nitroxides incorporating anthracene and fluorescein chromophores (compounds 7 and 19, respectively) exhibited two-photon absorption (2PA) cross sections of approximately 400 G.M. when excited at wavelengths greater than 800 nm. Both of these profluorescent nitroxides demonstrated low cytotoxicity toward Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. Imaging colocalization experiments with the commercially available CellROX Deep Red oxidative stress monitor demonstrated good cellular uptake of the nitroxide probes. Sensitivity of the nitroxide probes to H(2)O(2)-induced damage was also demonstrated by both one- and two-photon fluorescence microscopy. These profluorescent nitroxide probes are potentially powerful tools for imaging oxidative stress in biological systems, and they essentially "light up" in the presence of certain species generated from oxidative stress. The high ratio of the fluorescence quantum yield between the profluorescent nitroxide species and their nonradical adducts provides the sensitivity required for measuring a range of cellular redox environments. Furthermore, their reasonable 2PA cross sections provide for the option of using two-photon fluorescence microscopy, which circumvents commonly encountered disadvantages associated with one-photon imaging such as photobleaching and poor tissue penetration.     

MATHEMATICAL ASPECTS OF THE ULTRAVIOLET PHOTOCHEMISTRY OF PYRIMIDINE DINUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHATES

Abstract A mathematical formulation of the Kinetics of dimner and hydrate formation in pyrimidine dinucleosides upon ultraviolet (u.v.) radiatin is presented. The formulation allows for the possibilities of forming a number of types of dimers each with different cross sections for formtion and reversal, and of forming photo-irreversible products such as hydrates. The general differential equations descrbinjg the kinetics are solved in terms of a series of exponential terms which are functions of all the cross sections. The way in which any given species of hotoproduct is dependent upon the cross sections is illustrted in several examples. The results have been used to predict the maximum amount of dirner which may be produced for a given set of cross sections and the exposure at which this maximum is expected. The conditions under which dimers may be detected in a mixture of parent and dimer upon re-irradiation at short wavelengths are examined in terms of the differential equations.     

Theoretical Analysis on Optical Limiting Properties of Newly Synthesized Graphene Oxide-Porphyrin Composites (cited:2)

Optical limiting (OL) properties and two-photon absorption (TPA) of a series of covalently linked graphene oxide-porphyrin composite materials have been investigated by numerically solving the rate equations and field intensity equation with an iterative predictor-corrector finite-difference time-domain technique in nanosecond time domain. Our results show that graphene oxide-porphyrin composites exhibit enhanced OL behavior and possess larger TPA cross section compared with individual porphyrins. Interestingly, unlike the previous result that porphyrin with heavier central metal shows better nonlinear abilities than that with-out metal substitute, graphene oxide-metal free porphyrin composite has stronger nonlinear absorption properties compared with graphene oxide-metal porphyrin composite. The com-putational results are in reasonable agreement with the experimental ones. Special attention has been paid to the influence of thickness of the medium and pulse width on TPA cross sections, which presents that larger TPA cross sections are obtained as the medium is thicker or the pulse duration is wider.