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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CLUSTERS AND NANOMATERIALS
Volume 10174, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING
DOI: 10.1117/12.2230637
Keywords
Nanoclusters; condensation; nucleation; mass spectrometry; manganese; sputtering
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- U.S. National Science Foundation [DMR-1206334]
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We describe the production of size selected manganese nanoclusters using a dc magnetron sputtering/aggregation source. Since nanoparticle production is sensitive to a range of overlapping operating parameters (in particular, the sputtering discharge power, the inert gas flow rates, and the aggregation length) we focus on a detailed map of the influence of each parameter on the average nanocluster size. In this way it is possible to identify the main contribution of each parameter to the physical processes taking place within the source. The discharge power and argon flow supply the atomic vapor, and argon also plays the crucial role in the formation of condensation nuclei via three-body collisions. However, neither the argon flow nor the discharge power have a strong effect on the average nanocluster size in the exiting beam. Here the defining role is played by the source residence time, which is governed by the helium supply and the aggregation path length. The size of mass selected nanoclusters was verified by atomic force microscopy of deposited particles.
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