Magnetic field enhanced growth of carbon cluster ions in the laser ablation plume of graphite

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作者
Kokai, F
Koga, Y
Heimann, RB
机构
[1] NATL INST MAT & CHEM RES,TSUKUBA,IBARAKI 305,JAPAN
[2] FREIBERG UNIV MIN & TECHNOL,D-09596 FREIBERG,GERMANY
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10.1016/0169-4332(95)00430-0
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O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
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070304 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Time-of-flight mass spectrometric studies were carried out on neutral and positive ion clusters, composed of up to twenty carbon atoms, produced by Nd:YAG laser ablation of graphite in the presence of magnetic fields in the range of 0.03-0.10 T. The growth of larger carbon cluster ions with C-11(+) dominance in the laser-ionized ablation plume of graphite was found to be enhanced by the magnetic fields. We believe that an enhancement of ion-neutral reactions due to an increase of ionic species, resulting from collisional ionization of neutral species through a confinement of electrons, leads to the growth of larger carbon cluster ions.
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