Plasma laser-production

The book is divided into three major parts. The first covers a theoretical examination of the CVD process, a description of the major chemical reactions and a review of the CVD systems and equipment used in research and production, including the advanced subprocesses such as plasma, laser, and photon CVD. 

Scheme of efficient laser-production of a plasma by a, resonant excitation (RLPP) and b, quasi-resonant excitation (QRLPP) fl 8j. 

Partial Oxidation/Pyrolysis. This involves the reaction of natural gas with or without a controlled amount of oxygen at elevated temperatures in the presence or absence of a catalyst to produce olefins/acetylene and/or oxygenates. The heat source may be a hot surface, plasma, laser or simultaneous exothermic reaction, e.g., from co-production of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and water in varying amounts. 

Plasma He-Cd lasers operate at high pressures with inversion based on radiative deactivation of the lower working level. When excitation of plasma laser is provided by electron beams or by charged products of nuclear reactions, effective lasing has been achieved on the following electronic transitions of the singly charged cadmium ions >5/2 ... 

Factors influencing laser-induced plasma (LIP) production are ... 

Vapor—vapor reactions (14,16,17) are responsible for the majority of ceramic powders produced by vapor-phase synthesis. This process iavolves heating two or more vapor species which react to form the desired product powder. Reactant gases can be heated ia a resistance furnace, ia a glow discharge plasma at reduced pressure, or by a laser beam. Titania [13463-67-7] Ti02, siUca, siUcon carbide, and siUcon nitride, Si N, are among some of the technologically important ceramic powders produced by vapor—vapor reactions. 

Jenner GA, Foley SF, Jackson SE, Green TH, Fryer BJ, Longerich HP (1994) Determination of partition coefficients for trace elements in high pressnre-temperature experimental ran products by laser ablation microprobe-inductively conpled plasma-mass spectrometry (LAM-ICP-MS). Geochim Cosmochim Acta 58 5099-5103... 

Indeed, most of the applications of laser-plasmas rely on the efficient production of energetic electrons driven by the interaction of ultraintense laser pulses with plasmas created from solids or gases. In fact, in these interaction conditions, laser energy is efficiently transferred to electrons generating a population of so-called fast or hot electrons. The process of fast electron generation often takes place near the critical density (the density at which the laser frequency iv0 equals the local plasma frequency wpe) surface [8, 9]... 

In the museum context, nondestructive (or quasi-nondestructive) techniques such as X-ray fluorescence (XRF) (Chapter 5) are often preferred for the analysis of inorganic objects, although microanalysis by laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) (Chapter 9) is growing in importance, since the ablation craters are virtually invisible to the naked eye. Raman and infrared spectroscopy (Chapter 4) are now being used for structural information and the identification of corrosion products to complement X-ray diffraction (Section 5.4). 

Although laser ablation is clearly becoming more popular (as shown in Fig. 9.1), it is difficult to produce fully quantitative data because of problems in matrix matching between sample and standard (see below and Section 13.3). There are also likely to be variations in ablation efficiency in multi-component mixtures, leading to over- or under-representation of particular phases of the sample. It is also unlikely that all ablation products will enter the plasma in the elemental state, or that different particle sizes produced by ablation will have the same compositions. Ablation products may, therefore, not be truly representative of the sample (Morrison et al. 1995, Figg et al. 1998). Additionally, limits of detection for most elements are approximately... 

Matrix effects on measured Mg isotope ratios due to the presence of Fe in laser ablation targets require further study. Young et al. (2002a) formd that adding Fe via solution to the plasma to yield FeY Mg+ up to 2.0 resulted in no measurable shifts in Mg/ Mg and Mg/ Mg of laser ablation products. Norman et al. (2004) showed that there is a shift in instrumental fractionation in measured Mg/ Mg on the order of +0.06%o for every 1% decrease in Mg/ (Mg+Fe) of the olivine target. These disparate results might be explained by ionization in different locations in the torch when samples are introduced by aspiration of solutions rather than by gas flow from a laser ablation chamber. Different matrix effects for solutions and laser... 

Cl in conjunction with a direct exposure probe is known as desorption chemical ionization (DCI). [30,89,90] In DCI, the analyte is applied from solution or suspension to the outside of a thin resistively heated wire loop or coil. Then, the analyte is directly exposed to the reagent gas plasma while being rapidly heated at rates of several hundred °C s and to temperatures up to about 1500 °C (Chap. 5.3.2 and Fig. 5.16). The actual shape of the wire, the method how exactly the sample is applied to it, and the heating rate are of importance for the analytical result. [91,92] The rapid heating of the sample plays an important role in promoting molecular species rather than pyrolysis products. [93] A laser can be used to effect extremely fast evaporation from the probe prior to CL [94] In case of nonavailability of a dedicated DCI probe, a field emitter on a field desorption probe (Chap. 8) might serve as a replacement. [30,95] Different from desorption electron ionization (DEI), DCI plays an important role. [92] DCI can be employed to detect arsenic compounds present in the marine and terrestrial environment [96], to determine the sequence distribution of P-hydroxyalkanoate units in bacterial copolyesters [97], to identify additives in polymer extracts [98] and more. [99] Provided appropriate experimental setup, high resolution and accurate mass measurements can also be achieved in DCI mode. [100]... 

Analytes must be liberated from their associated solvent molecules as well as be ionized to allow mass separation. Several ionization methods enable ion production from the condensed phase and have been used for the coupling of CE to MS. Among them, atmospheric pressure ionization (API) methods, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI), and inductively coupled plasma (ICP) ionization are mainly used. API techniques are undoubtedly the most widespread ionization sources and cover different analyte polarity ranges. 

It allows the laser radiation to be focused onto a small area 10 cm ) and the power density to be considerably increased (up to 10 watt cm with continuous argon-lasers, and more than 10 watt cm with pulsed glass lasers) 22). This is, for instance, important for microspectrometric investigations (see Section III. 9) and for production of high-temperature plasmas. 

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