Authors: P M Ossi A Bailini
Publish Date: 2008/06/13
Volume: 93, Issue: 3, Pages: 645-650
Abstract
A phenomenological mixedpropagation model that describes the expansion of an ablation plume through a buffer gas is introduced Selected experiments including LaMnO3 and tin ablation in oxygen as well as tungsten ablation in argon are analysed For given ablation conditions the expansion parameters required to model the growth of clusters in the expanding plasma plume are deduced and the average asymptotic size of the clusters is calculated and compared for tungsten with the size of clusters measured by transmission electron microscopy
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