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P: Fachverband Plasmaphysik
P 16: Low Pressure Plasmas II & Dusty Plasmas II
P 16.5: Talk
Friday, September 3, 2021, 12:15–12:30, H2
Correlation of the void dynamics with transition events of the growth chain of nanodust in a reactive argon-acetylene plasma — Sebastian Groth1, Nancy Fassheber2, Gernot Friedrichs2, and •Franko Greiner1 — 1Institut für Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel — 2Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Using imaging Mie ellipsometry in combination with 1D extinction measurements we have fully characterized the spatio-temporal size and density evolution of nanoparticles grown in a reactive argon acetylene plasma [Groth et al. PSST 2019, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6595/ab5412]. The growth process is usually divided into four phases: (i) creation of precursors from acetylene, (ii) nucleation of nanometer-sized a:C-H clusters (nucleation phase), (iii) coagulation of the clusters to 50 nm nanoparticles (coagulation phase), and finally (iv) further growth of negatively charged particles by sticking of molecules and molecular ions (accretion phase).
The analysis of the dynamical behavior of a nanodust cloud completely embedded in another cloud, consisting of larger particles, can link events in the spatio-temporal evolution of the nanodust cloud to events along the growth chain of the nanoparticles. This permits the verification of theoretical predictions about the occurrence of specific plasma chemical events along the growth chain by means of laser spectroscopy.