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- Gaudiuso, Caterina, et al.
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Incubation during laser ablation with bursts of femtosecond pulses with picosecond delays
- 2018
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In: Optics Express. - 1094-4087. ; 26:4, s. 3801-3813
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Abstract: We report on an experimental investigation of the incubation effect during irradiation of stainless steel with bursts of ultrashort laser pulses. A series of birefringent crystals was used to split the pristine 650-fs pulses into bursts of up to 32 sub-pulses with time separations of 1.5 ps and 3 ps, respectively. The number of selected bursts was varied between 50 and 1600. The threshold fluence was measured in case of Burst Mode (BM) processing depending on the burst features, i.e. the number of sub-pulses and their separation time, and on the number of bursts. We found as many values of threshold fluence as the combinations of the number of bursts and of sub-pulses constituting the bursts set to give the same total number of impinging sub-pulses. However, existing incubation models developed for Normal Pulse Mode (NPM) return, for a given number of impinging pulses, a constant value of threshold fluence. Therefore, a dependence of the incubation coefficient with the burst features was hypothesized and experimentally investigated. Numerical solutions of the Two Temperature Model (TTM) in case of irradiation with single bursts of up to 4 sub-pulses have been performed to interpret the experimental results. © 2018 Optical Society of America.
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- Gaudiuso, Caterina, et al.
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Incubation effect in burst mode fs-laser ablation of stainless steel samples
- 2018
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In: Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering. - : SPIE. - 0277-786X .- 1996-756X. ; 10520
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We report on an experimental study of the incubation effect during irradiation of stainless steel targets with bursts of femtosecond laser pulses at 1030 nm wavelength and 100 kHz repetition rate. The bursts were generated by splitting the pristine 650-fs laser pulses using an array of birefringent crystals which provided time separations between sub-pulses in the range from 1.5 ps to 24 ps. We measured the threshold fluence in Burst Mode, finding that it strongly depends on the bursts features. The comparison with Normal Pulse Mode revealed that the existing models introduced to explain the incubation effect during irradiation with trains of undivided pulses has to be adapted to describe incubation during Burst Mode processing. In fact, those models assume that the threshold fluence has a unique value for each number of impinging pulses in NPM, while in case of BM we observed different values of threshold fluence for fixed amount of sub-pulses but different pulse splitting. Therefore, the incubation factor coefficient depends on the burst features. It was found that incubation effect is higher in BM than NPM and that it increases with the number of sub-pulses and for shorter time delays within the burst. Two-Temperature-Model simulations in case of single pulses and bursts of up to 4 sub-pulses were performed to understand the experimental results. © Copyright SPIE.
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- Goel, Sneha, 1993-, et al.
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Axial Plasma Spraying of Mixed Suspensions : A Case Study on Processing, Characteristics, and Tribological Behavior of Al2O3-YSZ Coatings
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In: Applied Sciences. - : MDPI. - 2076-3417. ; 10:15
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Thermal spraying deploying liquid feedstock offers an exciting opportunity to obtain coatings with characteristics vastly different from those produced using conventional spray-grade powders. The most extensively investigated variant of this technique is Suspension Plasma Spraying (SPS), which utilizes a suspension of fine powders in an appropriate medium. The relatively recent advent of axial feed capable plasma spray systems can enable higher throughputs during SPS, provides the possibility for spraying with longer stand-off distances, and also permit the use of suspensions with higher solid loading. The present work investigates axial plasma sprayed coatings produced using a mixed suspension of fine (submicron or nano-sized) powders of Al(2)O(3)and YSZ as a case study. Deposition of the mixed suspension using axial injection plasma spraying, comprehensive evaluation of characteristics of the resulting coatings, and assessment of their tribological behavior were of particular interest. Evaluation of surface morphology, microstructure, and hardness of the coatings reveals that axial SPS of mixed suspensions provides an exciting pathway to realize finely structured multi-constituent coatings using suspensions with as high as 40 wt.% solid loading. The study of scratch, dry sliding wear, and erosion behavior also specifically shows that the addition of YSZ in the Al(2)O(3)matrix can improve the tribological properties of the coating.
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