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AUTHOR
A. Sarakovskis
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Interaction of a Liquid Gallium Jet with ISTTOK Edge Plasmas
2008
The use of liquid metals as plasma facing components in tokamaks has recently experienced a renewed interest stimulated by their advantages in the development of a fusion reactor. Liquid metals have been proposed to solve problems related to the erosion and neutronic activation of solid walls submitted to high power loads allowing an efficient heat exhaust from fusion devices. Presently the most promising candidate materials are lithium and gallium. However, lithium has a short liquid state range when compared, for example, with gallium that has essentially better thermal properties and lower vapor pressure. To explore further these properties, ISTTOK tokamak is being used to test the inter…
Novel synthesis of up-conversion phosphor based on rare-earth doped NaLaF4
2011
In this work Er3+ doped NaLaF4 material has been synthesized Along with the description of the synthesis route, luminescence spectra and decay kinetics of both traditional and up-conversion luminescence of Er3+ will be presented for different Er3+ doping levels. It will be shown that the main mechanisms involved in the creation of the up-conversion luminescence in NaLaF4:Er3+ under excitation at about 975 nm are excited state absorption and energy transfer. Relative impact of either of the mechanisms in NaLaF4:Er3+ depends on both the concentration of Er3+ and on the excitation wavelength: the increase of either the concentration or the excitation wavelength leads to the prevalence of energ…
Dynamics of exciton creation and decay processes in composition – disordered InGaN thin films
2011
In the GaN-based ternary alloys, InGaN crystals have been recognized as key materials for e-h plasmas-exciton dynamics, because of large exciton binding energies (24.8 meV in GaN). We report investigations of creating and recombination dynamics of excitons in commercially important InxGa1-xN composition range from x = 0.1 to 0.18 in which nanoscale indium composition fluctuation occurs and formation of indium rich clusters acting as quantum dots (QD) can be expected. Three MOCVD grown samples having x = 0.1; 0.14 and 0.18 have been investigated using 3D picosecond transient PL spectroscopy. It has been found that the band to band photo excitation at 15 K in whole composition range results i…
Interaction of a liquid gallium jet with the tokamak ISTTOK edge plasma
2008
Abstract The interaction of a liquid gallium jet with plasma has been investigated in the tokamak ISTTOK. This paper presents a description of the conceived experimental setup, a detailed characterization of the produced jets and the first experimental results related to the gallium–plasma interaction. A stable jet has been obtained, which was not noticeably affected by magnetic field transients. ISTTOK has been successfully operated with the gallium jet without degradation of the discharge or a significant plasma contamination by liquid metal. This observation is supported by spectroscopic measurements showing that gallium radiation is limited to the region around the jet. Furthermore, the…
Defect-induced blue luminescence of hexagonal boron nitride
2016
Abstract Native defect-induced photoluminescence around 400 nm (blue luminescence - BL) was studied in hBN materials with different size and various origins. The following spectral characterizations were used: spectra of luminescence and its excitation, luminescence dependence on temperature, luminescence kinetics, optically stimulated luminescence and infrared absorption. It was found, that the BL is characteristic for all these materials, which were studied. The BL forms a wide, asymmetric and phonon-assisted emission band at 380 nm. This luminescence can be excited either through the exciton processes, or with light from two defect-induced excitation bands at 340 nm and 265 nm. It was fo…
Liquid gallium jet–plasma interaction studies in ISTTOK tokamak
2009
Abstract Liquid metals have been pointed out as a suitable solution to solve problems related to the use of solid walls submitted to high power loads allowing, simultaneously, an efficient heat exhaustion process from fusion devices. The most promising candidate materials are lithium and gallium. However, lithium has a short liquid state temperature range when compared with gallium. To explore further this property, ISTTOK tokamak is being used to test the interaction of a free flying liquid gallium jet with the plasma. ISTTOK has been successfully operated with this jet without noticeable discharge degradation and no severe effect on the main plasma parameters or a significant plasma conta…