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Controlling nanoparticles formation in molten metallic bilayers by pulsed-laser interference heating
Mathematical Modeling of Natural Phenomena (2012)
  • Mikhail Khenner, Western Kentucky University
  • Sagar Yadavali, University of Tennessee - Knoxville
  • Ramki Kalyanaraman, University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Abstract

The impacts of the two-beam interference heating on the number of core-shell and embedded nanoparticles and on nanostructure coarsening are studied numerically based on the non-linear dynamical model for dewetting of the pulsed-laser irradiated, thin (< 20 nm) metallic bilayers. The model incorporates thermocapillary forces and disjoining pressures, and assumes dewetting from the optically transparent substrate atop of the reflective support layer, which results in the complicated dependence of light reflectivity and absorption on the thicknesses of the layers. Stabilizing thermocapillary effect is due to the local thickness-dependent, steady- state temperature profile in the liquid, which is derived based on the mean substrate temperature estimated from the elaborate thermal model of transient heating and melting/freezing. Linear stability analysis of the model equations set for Ag/Co bilayer predicts the dewetting length scales in the qualitative agreement with experiment.

Keywords
  • liquid bilayer films,
  • thermocapillary convection,
  • interfacial stabil- ity,
  • pulsed laser irradiation,
  • dewetting,
  • self-organization,
  • nanopatterning
Publication Date
2012
Publisher Statement
MMNP article location: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/mmnp/20127403
Citation Information
Mikhail Khenner, Sagar Yadavali and Ramki Kalyanaraman. "Controlling nanoparticles formation in molten metallic bilayers by pulsed-laser interference heating" Mathematical Modeling of Natural Phenomena Vol. 7 Iss. 4 (2012)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/mkhenner/13/