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Comparative studies of Laser induced plasma in TEOS and MTMS based aerogels and solid quartz

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2017

A. Venkateswara Rao ,
Channprit Kaur ,
A. A. Pisal ,
S. Chaurasia ,
M. N. Deo  and
S. M. Sharma
A. Venkateswara Rao*
Affiliation:
Air Glass Laboratory, Department of Physics, Shivaji University, Kolhapur – 416004, Maharashtra, India.
Channprit Kaur
Affiliation:
High Pressure and Synchrotron Radiation Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai – 400085, Maharashtra, India.
A. A. Pisal
Affiliation:
Air Glass Laboratory, Department of Physics, Shivaji University, Kolhapur – 416004, Maharashtra, India.
S. Chaurasia
Affiliation:
High Pressure and Synchrotron Radiation Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai – 400085, Maharashtra, India.
M. N. Deo
Affiliation:
High Pressure and Synchrotron Radiation Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai – 400085, Maharashtra, India.
S. M. Sharma
Affiliation:
High Pressure and Synchrotron Radiation Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai – 400085, Maharashtra, India.
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*(Email: avrao2012@gmail.com)
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Abstract:

The interaction of laser radiation with low density aerogels is of crucial importance in areas such as the creation of coherent radiation sources in the X-ray range, simulation of astrophysical as well as nuclear fusion phenomena in laboratory and fundamental studies of the properties of soft condensed matter under dynamic pressure in the Mbar range. In the present paper, the experimental results on the X-ray emission of laser induced plasma in TEOS based, MTMS based aerogels and solid quartz targets, are reported. The aerogels were produced by the sol-gel processing of tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) and methyltrimethoxysilane (MTMS) followed by supercritical drying. Silica alcogels were produced using 0.001 M oxalic acid (C2H4O4), 0.5 M ammonium hydroxide (NH4OH) catalysts. Different densities of aerogels varying from 0.02 to 0.06 g/cm3 have been obtained using different molar ratios of TEOS, MTMS, ethanol and catalysts. The laser, with intensity up to 2 x 1014 W/m2, interaction with TEOS and MTMS based aerogels have been conducted using 30J/500 ps Nd : glass laser system. The resulting soft (0.8 – 1.56 Kev) and hard (>4 Kev) X-ray emissions have been measured using semiconductor photodiodes. It has been observed that the soft X-ray yield increases by a factor of two for the silica aerogel targets compared to the X-ray emission from the solid quartz target, whereas the hard X-ray yield reduces. The enhanced soft X-ray yield in silica aerogel targets is attributed to the large volume heating.

Keywords

aerogellasersol-gel
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MRS Advances , Volume 2 , Issue 57: Nanomaterials , 2017 , pp. 3531 - 3536
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2017 

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