Nanosecond Time-Resolved Measurements of Transient Hole Opening During Laser Micromachining of an Aluminum Film

2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Hendijanifard ◽  
David A. Willis
Keyword(s):  
Shock Wave ◽  
Phase Change ◽  
Pulse Width ◽  
Laser Micromachining ◽  
Aluminum Film ◽  
Dye Laser ◽  
Time Resolved ◽  
Recoil Pressure ◽  
Hole Area ◽  
Explosive Phase

Laser micromachining of an aluminum film on a glass substrate is investigated using a time-resolved transmission imaging technique with nanosecond resolution. Micromachining is performed using a 7 ns pulse-width Nd:YAG laser operating at the 1064 nm wavelength for fluences ranging from 2.2 to 14.5 J/cm2. A nitrogen laser-pumped dye laser with a 3 ns pulse-width and 500 nm wavelength is used as a light source for visualizing the transient hole area. The dye laser is incident on the free surface and a CCD camera behind the sample captures the transmitted light. Images are taken from the back of the sample at various time delays with respect to the beginning of the ablation process, allowing the transient hole area to be measured. For low fluences, the hole opening process is delayed long after the laser pulse and there is significant scatter in the data due to weak driving forces for hole opening. However, for fluences at and above 3.5 J/cm2, the starting time of the process converges to a limiting minimum value of 12 ns, independent of laser fluence. At these fluences, the rate of hole opening is rapid, with the major portion of the holes opened within 25 ns. The second stage of the process is slower and lasts between 100 and 200 ns. The rapid hole opening process at high fluences can be attributed to recoil pressure from explosive phase change. Measurements of the transient shock wave position using the imaging apparatus in shadowgraph mode are used to estimate the pressure behind the shock wave. Recoil pressure estimates indicate pressure values over 90 atm at the highest fluence, which decays rapidly with time due to expansion of the ablation plume. The recoil pressure for all fluences above 3.1 J/cm2 is higher than that required for recoil pressure driven flow due to the transition to explosive phase change above this fluence.

Nanosecond Time-Resolved Measurements of Hole Opening During Laser Micromachining of Aluminum Films

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Willis ◽  
Mohammad Hendijanifard
Keyword(s):  
Shock Wave ◽  
Pulse Width ◽  
Laser Micromachining ◽  
Nitrogen Laser ◽  
Time Resolved ◽  
Recoil Pressure ◽  
Aluminum Films ◽  
High Fluences ◽  
Transmission Imaging ◽  
Opening Process

Laser micromachining of aluminum films on glass substrates is investigated using a time-resolved transmission imaging technique with nanosecond resolution. Micromachining is performed using a 7 ns pulse-width Nd:YAG laser operating at the 1064 nm wavelength for fluences ranging from 2.2 to 14.5 J/cm2. Transmission imaging uses a nitrogen laser-pumped dye laser with a 3 ns pulse-width and 500 nm wavelength. Images are taken from the back of the sample at various time delays with respect to the beginning of the ablation process, allowing the transient hole opening process to be observed and measured. Results show that for high fluences the holes begin opening during the laser pulse and that the major portion of the holes have opened within the first 50 ns of the process. The second stage of the process is slower and lasts between 100–200 ns. The rapid hole opening process can be attributed to melt expulsion due to recoil pressure on the surface of the melt pool rather than Marangoni flow. Recoil pressure may be due to vaporization at the free surface at low fluences and phase explosion (explosive liquid-vapor phase change) at higher fluences. Measurements of the transient shock wave position are used to estimate the pressure behind the shock wave and indicate pressures at high as 89 atm during ablation. The high pressure above the laser spot results in pressure on the molten surface, leading to expulsion of the molten pool in the radial direction.

Modeling of Pressure Evolution During Nanosecond Laser Ablation of Metal Films

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Hendijanifard ◽  
David A. Willis
Keyword(s):  
Shock Wave ◽  
Laser Ablation ◽  
Pulse Width ◽  
Metal Films ◽  
Normal Shock ◽  
Nanosecond Laser ◽  
Time Resolved ◽  
Aluminum Films ◽  
Nanosecond Laser Ablation ◽  
Fluid Properties

Nanosecond laser ablation is studied using a theoretical model combined with experimental data from laser ablation of metal films. The purpose of the research is to obtain the recoil pressure boundary condition resulting from explosive phase change. The ablation experiments are performed using a Nd:YAG laser of 1064 nm wavelength and 7 ns pulse width at full width half maximum. Three samples, 200 and 1000 nm aluminum films and 1000 nm nickel films, are used in the experiments. The transient shock wave positions are obtained by a time-resolved shadowgraph technique. A N2-laser pumped dye laser with 3 ns pulse width is used as an illumination source and is synchronized with the ablation laser to obtain the transient shock wave position with nanosecond resolution. The transient shock position is used in a model for finding the shock wave speed as well as the pressure, temperature, and velocity just behind the shock wave. A power law is used for fitting curves on the experimentally obtained shock wave position. Knowing the shock wave position, the normal shock equations are used to calculate the thermo-fluid properties behind the shock wave. The solutions are compared with the Taylor-Sedov solution for spherical shocks and the reason for the deviation is described. The thermo-fluid property results show similar trends for all tested samples. The results show that the Taylor-Sedov solution under-estimates the pressure behind the shock wave when compared to the normal shock results.

scholarly journals Time-Resolved Investigation of the Molecular Chemiluminescence SrI(A2∏1/2,3,2,B2∑+→X2∑+) and the Atomic Resonance Fluorescence Sr(53P1→51S0) Following The Pulsed Dye Laser Generation Of Sr(53PJ) in the Presence of CF3I

1995 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Antrobus ◽  
D. Husain ◽  
Jie Lei ◽  
F. Castaño ◽  
M. N. Sanchez Rayo
Keyword(s):  
Ground State ◽  
Branching Ratio ◽  
Atomic Emission ◽  
Electronic Energy ◽  
Dye Laser ◽  
Pulsed Dye Laser ◽  
Laser Generation ◽  
Buffer Gas ◽  
Resonance Fluorescence ◽  
Time Resolved

A time-resolved investigation is presented of the electronic energy distribution in SrI following the collision of the optically metastable strontium atom, Sr [5s5p(3PJ)], with the molecule CF3I. Sr[5s5p(3PJ)], 1.807 eV above its 5s2(1S0) electronic ground state, was generated by pulsed dye-laser excitation of ground state strontium vapour to the Sr(53P1) state at , λ =689.3 nm {Sr(53P1←51S0)} at elevated temperature (840 K) in the presence of excess helium buffer gas in which rapid Boltzmann equilibration within the 53PJ spin-orbit manifold takes place. Time resolved atomic emission from Sr(53P1→51S0) at the resonance transition and the molecular chemiluminescence from SrI(A2∏1,2,3/2,B2∑+→X2∑+) resulting from reaction of the excited atom with CF3I were recorded and shown to be exponential in character. SrI in the A2∏1/2,3/2 (172.5, 175.4 kJ mol-1) and B2∑+ (177.3 kJ mol-1) states are energetically accessible on collision by direct-I-atomic abstraction between Sr(3P) and CF3I. The first-order decay coefficients for the atomic and molecular emissions are found to be equal under identical conditions and hence SrI(A2∏1/2,3/2, B2∑+) are shown to arise from direct I- atom abstraction reactions. The molecular systems recorded were SrI (A2∏1/2→X2∑+, Δv=0, λ=694 nm), SrI(A2∏3/2→X2∑+, Δv=0, λ=677 nm) and SrI(B2∑+→X2∑+) (Δv=0, λ=674 nm), dominated by the Δv=0 sequences on account of Franck-Condon considerations. The combination of integrated m61ecular and atomic intensity measurements yields estimates of the branching ratios into the specific electronic states, A1/2, A3/2 and B, arising from Sr(53PJ)+CF3I which are found to be as follows: A1/2,1.2 × 10-2; A3/2, 6.7 × 10-3; B, 5.1 × 10-3 yielding ∑SrI(A1/2+A3/2+B)=2.4 × 10-2. As only the X, A and B states SrI are accessible on reaction, assuming that the removal of Sr(53PJ) occurs totally by chemical removal, this yields an upper limit for the branching ratio into the ground state of ca. 98%. The present results are compared with previous time-resolved measurements on excited states of strontium halides that we have reported on various halogenated species resulting from reactions of Sr(53PJ), together with analogous chemiluminescence studies on Sr(3PJ) and Ca(43PJ) from molecular beam measurements.

Early Dynamics of a Laser-induced Underwater Shock Wave

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guihua Lai ◽  
Siyuan Geng ◽  
Hanwen Zheng ◽  
Zhifeng Yao ◽  
Qiang Zhong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Shock Wave ◽  
Numerical Method ◽  
Cavitation Bubble ◽  
Laser Energy ◽  
Optical Breakdown ◽  
Pulsed Laser ◽  
Underwater Shock Wave ◽  
Time Resolved ◽  
High Attenuation ◽  
Nanosecond Pulsed Laser

Abstract The objective of this paper is to observe and investigate the early evolution of the shock wave, induced by a nanosecond pulsed laser in still water. A numerical method is performed to calculate the propagation of the shock wave within 1µs, after optical breakdown, based on the Gilmore model and the Kirkwood-Bethe hypothesis. The input parameters of the numerical method include the laser pulse duration, the size of the plasma and the maximally extended cavitation bubble, which are measured utilizing a high time-resolved shadowgraph system. The calculation results are verified by shock wave observation experiments at the cavitation bubble expansion stage. The relative errors of the radiuses and the velocity of the shock wave front, reach the maximum value of 45% at 5 ns after breakdown and decrease to less than 20% within 20 ns. The high attenuation characteristics of the shock wave after the optical breakdown, are predicted by the numerical method. The quick time and space evolution of the shock wave are carefully analyzed. The normalized shock wave width is found to be independent of the laser energy and duration, and the energy partitions ratio is around 2.0 using the nanosecond pulsed laser.

scholarly journals The Effect of Channel Length on Phase Transition of Phase Change Memory

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.11) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
M S. A.Aziz ◽  
F H. M.Fauzi ◽  
Z Mohamad ◽  
R I. Alip
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Silicon Carbide ◽  
Phase Change ◽  
Pulse Width ◽  
Crystalline State ◽  
Phase Change Memory ◽  
Amorphous State ◽  
Channel Length ◽  
Change Memory

The phase transition of germanium antimony tellurium (GST) and the temperature of GST were investigated using COMSOL Multiphysic 5.0 software. Silicon carbide was using as a heater layer in the separate heater structure of PCM. These simulations have a different channel of SiC. The temperature of GST and the phase transition of GST can be obtained from the simulation. From the simulation, the 300 nm channel of SiC can change the GST from amorphous to crystalline state at 0.7V with 100 ns pulse width. The 800 nm channel of SiC can change the GST from amorphous to crystalline state at 1.1V with 100 ns pulse width. Results demonstrated that the channel of SIC can affecting the temperature of GST and the GST changes from amorphous state to crystalline state. As the channel of SiC decreased, the temperature of GST was increased and the GST was change to crystalline state quickly.  

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