| Issue |
EPL
Volume 97, Number 3, February 2012
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| Article Number | 33001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/97/33001 | |
| Published online | 20 January 2012 | |
Conversion of a metal microparticle into nanoclusters
Joint Institute for High Temperatures of RAS - 13, bldg. 2 Izhorskaya str., Moscow, 125412, Russia
Received:
26
November
2011
Accepted:
22
December
2011
The method of generation of metal nanoclusters consists in the injection of a metal microparticle in a vertical flow of a buffer gas where this microparticle stops because of the equality of the gravitation and Stokes forces and rises up along a funnel-shaped tube in the course of evaporation under the action of an external field. The formed metal atoms are transformed into nanoclusters in a cold region of the flow. Parameters of processes involving nanoclusters are analyzed for a silver microparticle in an argon flow.
PACS: 36.40.-c – Atomic and molecular clusters / 36.40.Sx – Diffusion and dynamics of clusters / 81.10.Bk – Growth from vapor
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