Laser-Induced Ion Formation and Electron Emission from a Nanostructured Gold Surface at Laser Fluence below the Threshold for Plasma Formation
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Mass Spectrometric Measurements
2.2. Scanning Electron Microscopy
2.3. Materials
3. Results
3.1. Mass Spectrometry
3.2. SEM Surface Images
3.3. Numerical Simulations of Gold Surface Laser Heating
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Pento, A.; Kuzmin, I.; Kozlovskiy, V.; Li, L.; Laptinskaya, P.; Simanovsky, Y.; Sartakov, B.; Nikiforov, S. Laser-Induced Ion Formation and Electron Emission from a Nanostructured Gold Surface at Laser Fluence below the Threshold for Plasma Formation. Nanomaterials 2023, 13, 600. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13030600
Pento A, Kuzmin I, Kozlovskiy V, Li L, Laptinskaya P, Simanovsky Y, Sartakov B, Nikiforov S. Laser-Induced Ion Formation and Electron Emission from a Nanostructured Gold Surface at Laser Fluence below the Threshold for Plasma Formation. Nanomaterials. 2023; 13(3):600. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13030600
Chicago/Turabian StylePento, Andrey, Ilya Kuzmin, Viacheslav Kozlovskiy, Lei Li, Polina Laptinskaya, Yaroslav Simanovsky, Boris Sartakov, and Sergey Nikiforov. 2023. "Laser-Induced Ion Formation and Electron Emission from a Nanostructured Gold Surface at Laser Fluence below the Threshold for Plasma Formation" Nanomaterials 13, no. 3: 600. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13030600