Abstract

A flash method, employing a pulsed flashlamp-pumped dye laser has been used to determine the thermal diffusivities of elemental arsenic, antimony, and bismuth. Measurements were made both on poly-crystalline samples and on oriented single crystal (111) wafers in the form of small disks 3.0−7.0 mm in diameter, and 0.43–1.33 mm thick. Thermocouples (0.076 mm dia) monitor the back surface temperature as a function of time after the front of the sample is exposed to a single laser pulse of pulse width (τ) <1.0 μsec. The room temperature thermal diffusivities α (cm2/sec) of polycrystalline As, Sb and Bi are respectively: 0.234, 0.182 and 0.0651. The diffusivities parallel to the trigonal crystal axis α1 are: 0.119,0.142 and 0.0350. Measurements on polycrystalline Cu, Al and Ti yield 1.13, 0.96 and 0.085 cm2/sec, in agreement with literature values.

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