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Spectrum analysis of plasma produced by pulsed laser ablation of GaAs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2007

AI HUA LIU
AI HUA LIU*
Affiliation:
College of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, 250014, Jinan, People's Republic of China (iiiiiihua@yahoo.com.cn)
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Abstract.

A time-resolved diagnostic technique was used to investigate the emission spectra from the plasmas produced by 1.06 μm, 10 ns pulsed laser ablation of semiconductor GaAs. The characteristics of the species in plasma produced at different ambient pressure were analyzed. The full width at half maximum of the spectral line was measured and analyzed according to obtained spectra of the excited atoms; several line broadening factors were estimated according to our experimental conditions and the results indicate that the Stark broadening is the main broadening mechanism. Under the assumption of local thermodynamic equilibrium, the time evolution of electron number density was deduced from the Stark broadening measurements.

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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 73 , Issue 2 , April 2007 , pp. 231 - 239
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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