摘要:
A specimen of molecules containing the desired element is contained in a low-pressure environment and is exposed to a beam of electrons of predetermined energy, causing the electrons to be captured by the molecules. The reaction is chosen so that there is a natural dissociation into an ion containing the desired element. The reaction region is subjected to an electrical field that accelerates the ions and removes them from the reaction region, at which time the ions are exposed to a laser beam of a wavelength sufficient to photodetach a substantial number of electrons from the ions, producing neutral atoms of the desired element. The entire particle stream exiting the interaction region is subjected to a magnetic field that bends the charged ions away from the neutral atoms so that the neutral atoms can then be directed to a test specimen or collection device, as the case may be. The apparatus for carrying out the method includes a pressure vessel for maintaining the environment in which the reactions take place at a pressure in the neighborhood of 10.sup.-4 Torr and, typically, the same magnetic field that is used to separate the ions from the neutral atoms is also used to collimate the electron beam for better localization, to interact with the molecules.
摘要:
In order to remove a dielectric coating from a conducting material, a high energy radiation source, such as a laser source, is focused in a region having a predefined relationship with the coating of the conducting material. The focused radiation results in a plasma or ionized region being formed. The coating in the vicinity of the plasma region is removed. The region of the focusing of the radiation is varied spatially to remove the dielectric coating in a pre-selected region of the conducting material. According to one embodiment, the radiation is focused in a region spatially removed from the conducting material in order that the direct radiation does not directly impact the conducting material.
摘要:
The present invention generally relates to the use of fluorescence signals obtained by selective optical excitation to detect and monitor a species present during a flow reaction or decomposition of various reactants. These reactions were analyzed in situ using a tunable laser as a selective excitation source in combination with a reactor inducing such reactions with a diffusion flame or a plasma. The resultant spectra and analysis presented herein demonstrates the detection of new compositions like SiHF in the gas phase. The invention allows for pinpoint spatial probing of the reactor without perturbing the reaction. Thus, a deposition process can be controlled by monitoring a selected species and adjusting the deposition reaction parameters in response to the species' mere detection or relative concentration. The invention also contemplates perturbing deposition reactions by selectively exciting a species present in the deposition reaction to modify the deposited material so that the quality of the deposited material improves. Specifically, improved photovoltaic devices which include photoconductive material made in accordance with the present invention are disclosed herein.
摘要:
A cw CO.sub.2 tunable laser is employed to irradiate an allyl halide selected from allyl chloride, allyl bromide, allyl fluoride, 2-methyl-3-chloropropene, and 2,3-dichloropropene and contained in one or more reaction cells at a predetermined pressure. A predetermined power level from about 25 to 150 watts, an irradiating time from about 0.2 second to about 60 seconds, and a selected radiation line for example P(36), P(32), P(28), P(26), or P(22) (that is resonant with an absorption band of the selected allyl halide) are employed to achieve dissociation of the selected allyl halide and to achieve a laser-induced photochemical synthesis of benzene and substituted benzenes.
摘要:
This invention relates to an automated apparatus for use with electromagnetic radiation, such as a laser beam, to promote chemical reactions. The reaction chamber apparatus comprises a cylinder equipped with a reciprocating piston and with one or more windows. The invention also comprises an automated system which utilizes said chamber, and a method for utilizing the chamber and system. A laser beam enters the cylinder through one window, activates the reagents therein, and exits the chamber through a second window. After a mixture has been reacted, the laser is placed on standby, and the piston reciprocates, filling the cylinder with fresh reagent. Various embodiments are described which improve the efficiency of this invention.
摘要:
A device and method for separating oxygen isotopes with an ArF laser which produces coherent radiation at approximately 193 nm. The output of the ArF laser is filtered in natural air and applied to an irradiation cell where it preferentially photodissociates molecules of oxygen gas containing .sup.17 O or .sup.18 O oxygen nuclides. A scavenger such as O.sub.2, CO or ethylene is used to collect the preferentially dissociated oxygen atoms and recycled to produce isotopically enriched molecular oxygen gas. Other embodiments utilize an ArF laser which is narrowly tuned with a prism or diffraction grating to preferentially photodissociate desired isotopes. Similarly, desired mixtures of isotopic gas can be used as a filter to photodissociate enriched preselected isotopes of oxygen.
摘要:
The invention relates to an improved method for synthesizing uranium hexamethoxide and new mixed methoxy uranium (VI) fluorides from uranium hexafluorides. Irradiation of the products of the invention in the vapor phase, with a pulsed CO.sub.2 gas laser leads to enrichment in the U-235 content of the isotopic mixture containing U-235 and U-238, the degree of enrichment depending upon the laser frequency employed.
摘要:
A method for the production of B.sub.10 H.sub.14 by laser induced chemistry is disclosed. A DF laser is used to irradiate a laser reaction cell containing diborane (B.sub.2 H.sub.6). The P.sub.12 (2611 cm.sup.-1) frequency of the 1-0 band of the DF laser is resonant with the .nu..sub.8 (2614 cm.sup.-1) vibrational fundamental of B.sub.2 H.sub.6 and starts a chain reaction producing solid white crystals of B.sub.10 H.sub.14 that condense on the walls of the laser reaction cell. The method is carried out at room temperature. Thus, the chemical engineering is very simple. The B.sub.10 H.sub.14 produced is of high purity and high yield. The production of decaborane-14 from diborane by DF laser induced chemistry (LIC) represents an efficient synthesis of a large polyatomic molecule of high purity by LIC.
摘要:
In the process of the invention an isotopic starting material comprising at least two isotopic forms of CF.sub.3 I and particularly a mixture of carbon-12 and carbon-13 isotopic species of CF.sub.3 I is selectively isotopically enriched by means of a laser-induced photochemical dissociation followed by chemical combination to form a compound, such as an ethylenically unsaturated compound other than CF.sub.3 I. The chemical combination takes the form of recombination of dissociation fragments or the combination of the CF.sub.3 radical with a scavenger compound. The separation is carried out by irradiating a gaseous mixture of the starting materials at a reduced pressure with laser radiation, until a significant enrichment in isotopic CF.sub.3 I is achieved. The wavelength of the radiation is selected so as to selectively excite one of the CF.sub.3 I isotopes, thereby causing the excited species to dissociate and form at least one chemical species other than CF.sub.3 I. The resulting mixture is enriched in selectively unexcited isotopic CF.sub.3 I which can be separated from the reaction product mixture by conventional techniques.