Controlled growth of helium nanodroplets from a pulsed source

Review of Scientific Instruments - Tập 76 Số 10 - 2005
Shengfu Yang1, Scott M. Brereton1, Andrew M. Ellis1
1University of Leicester, Department of Chemistry, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom

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Factors affecting the size of liquid-helium droplets produced by a pulsed nozzle are described. The shape of the nozzle orifice is found to be important in allowing control of the size of the droplets. With an appropriate choice of nozzle geometry, the average droplet size is shown to be continuously variable over nearly two orders of magnitude by adjustment of the helium gas stagnation pressure and/or temperature. A scaling law similar to, but not identical with, that found for helium droplets produced by continuous supersonic expansion sources is found for the pulsed source. The pulsed nozzle described in this article has been used to make helium droplets ranging in size from a few thousand atoms up to nearly 105 helium atoms.

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