Species distribution in laser-induced plasma on the surface of binary miscible alloy

Abstract

The spatiotemporal species distribution and dynamics of plasma play a crucially important role in improving the quality of the deposited film fabricated by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) and optimizing the spectral acquisition to enhance the quantitative performance of spatial-resolved laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS). In this work, the monochrome imaging is used to analyze the plasmas induced from binary miscible alloys and explore the dependence of species distribution in plasma on laser-supported combustion (LSC) and laser-supported detonation (LSD) wave propagation regimes. This paper includes three conclusions: 1) the species distribution in LSC-wave dominated plasma induced from immiscible alloy is heavily influenced by the melting points of constituted elements, while in LSC-wave dominated plasma induced from miscible alloy, it is related to the boiling points; 2) whether the alloy is miscible or immiscible, the species distribution in LSD-wave dominated plasma is only related to the atomic masses; 3) to a great extent, the reduction rate of species in LSC-wave dominated plasma is associated with the transition probability, while that in LSD-wave dominated plasma is associated with the number density of species in the upper energy level.