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ArticleScientific reports2017

Laser-Generated Proton Beams for High-Precision Ultra-Fast Crystal Synthesis.

M Barberio, M Scisciò, S Vallières, S Veltri, A Morabito, P Antici

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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6 authors.

M BarberioINRS-EMT, 1650 Boul. Lionel Boulet, Varennes, Canada.
M ScisciòINRS-EMT, 1650 Boul. Lionel Boulet, Varennes, Canada.
S VallièresINRS-EMT, 1650 Boul. Lionel Boulet, Varennes, Canada.
S VeltriINRS-EMT, 1650 Boul. Lionel Boulet, Varennes, Canada.
A MorabitoINFN and University of Rome, Via Scarpa 14, 00161, Roma, Italy.
P AnticiINRS-EMT, 1650 Boul. Lionel Boulet, Varennes, Canada. antici@emt.inrs.ca.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present a method for the synthesis of micro-crystals and micro-structured surfaces using laser-accelerated protons. In this method, a solid surface material having a low melting temperature is irradiated with very-short laser-generated protons, provoking in the ablation process thermodynamic conditions that are between the boiling and the critical point. The intense and very quick proton energy deposition (in the ns range) induces an explosive boiling and produces microcrystals that nucleate in a plasma plume composed by ions and atoms detached from the laser-irradiated surface. The synthesized particles in the plasma plume are then deposited onto a cold neighboring, non-irradiated, solid secondary surface. We experimentally verify the synthesizing methods by depositing low-melting-material microcrystals - such as gold - onto nearby silver surfaces and modeling the proton/matter interaction via a Monte Carlo code, confirming that we are in the above described thermodynamic conditions. Morphological and crystallinity measurements indicate the formation of gold octahedral crystals with dimensions around 1.2 μm, uniformly distributed onto a silver surface with dimensions in the tens of mm

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PMCPMC5624931

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