TY - JOUR A1 - Quackatz, Lukas A1 - Gornushkin, Igor B. A1 - Griesche, Axel A1 - Kannengiesser, Thomas A1 - Treutler, Kai A1 - Wesling, Volker T1 - In situ chemical analysis of duplex stainless steel weld by laser induced breakdown spectroscopy N2 - The high corrosion resistance and good mechanical properties of duplex stainless steel (DSS) are due to its special chemical composition, which is a balanced phase ratio of ferrite (α) and austenite (γ). Many industrial applications require the integration of DSS components. For this, Gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) is an excellent choice, as it allows an automated operation with high reproducibility. However, when the weld pool solidifies, critical ratios of α- and γ- phases can occur, which lead to solidification cracking, increased susceptibility to corrosion, and a decrease in ductility and critical strength. Previous studies have shown that these defects can be caused by the accumulation of manganese and chromium in the heat affected zone (HAZ), requiring ongoing monitoring of this accumulation. A suitable method for such monitoring is laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), which can be used in two operating modes: calibration using standard reference samples and calibration-free. Unlike conventional quantitative LIBS measurements, which require reference samples to generate a calibration curve, calibration-free LIBS (CF-LIBS) allows chemical compositions to be determined solely from the emission spectrum of the plasma. Numerous publications show that CF-LIBS is a fast and efficient analytical method for the quantitative analysis of metal samples. In this work, CF-LIBS is applied to spectra obtained during GTAW DSS welding and the result is compared with those obtained by PLS analysis. A good correlation was found between both types of analysis, demonstrating the suitability of the CF-LIBS method for this application. The CF-LIBS method has a significant advantage over conventional LIBS due to the rapid in situ measurement of concentrations of major alloying elements without calibration procedure. This, combined with fast feedback and appropriate adjustment of welding parameters, helps prevent welding defects. KW - Duplex stainless steels KW - In situ measurement KW - LIBS KW - GMAW PY - 2024 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-597940 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sab.2024.106899 SN - 0584-8547 VL - 214 SP - 1 EP - 7 PB - Elsevier B.V. AN - OPUS4-59794 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kornev, Roman A1 - Gornushkin, Igor B. A1 - Shabarova, Lubov A1 - Kadomtseva, Alena A1 - Mochalov, Georgy A1 - Rekunov, Nikita A1 - Romanov, Sergey A1 - Medov, Vitaly A1 - Belousova, Darya A1 - Maleev, Nikita T1 - Plasma-Chemical Disposal of Silicon and Germanium Tetrachlorides Waste by Hydrogen Reduction N2 - The processes of hydrogen reduction of silicon and germanium chlorides under the conditions of high-frequency (40.68 MHz) counteracted arc discharge stabilized between two rod electrodes are investigated. The main gas-phase and solid products of plasma-chemical transformations are determined. Thermodynamic analysis of SiCl4 + H2 and GeCl4 + H2 systems for optimal process parameters was carried out. Using the example of hydrogen reduction of SiCl4 by the method of numerical modeling, gas-dynamic and thermal processes for this type of discharge are investigated. The impurity composition of gas-phase and solid reaction products is investigated. The possibility of single-stage production of high-purity Si and Ge mainly in the form of compact ingots, as well as high-purity chlorosilanes and trichlorogermane, is shown. KW - High-frequency arc discharge KW - Hydrogen reduction KW - Silicon chlorides KW - Germanium chlorides PY - 2024 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-594454 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/sci6010001 VL - 6 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 12 PB - MDPI AG AN - OPUS4-59445 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Gornushkin, Igor B. T1 - Plasma Fundamentals and Diagnostics N2 - This course will provide an introduction to plasma diagnostic techniques. The major focus of the course will be on the discussions of the practical procedures as well as the underlying physical principles for the measurements of plasma fundamental characteristics (e.g., temperatures, thermodynamic properties, and electron number density). Particular emphasis will be placed on inductively coupled plasma–atomic emission spectrometry, but other analytical plasmas will also be used as examples when appropriate. Selected examples on how one can manipulate the operating conditions of the plasma source, based on the results of plasma diagnostic measurements, to improve its performance used for spectrochemical analysis will also be covered. Topics to be covered include thermal equilibrium, line profiles, temperatures, electron densities, excitation processes, micro reactions, pump and probe diagnostics, tomography, temporal and spatial resolution. Basis of plasma computer modeling will be presented. T2 - 2024 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry CY - Tucson, Arizona, USA DA - 15.01.2024 KW - Plasma KW - Plasma fundamentals KW - Plasma diagnostics PY - 2024 AN - OPUS4-59430 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Gornushkin, Igor B. A1 - Kornev, R. A1 - Bulanov, A. A1 - Ermakov, A. T1 - Laser-Induced Dielectric Breakdown as a Novel Method for Obtaining Isotopically Enriched Nanoscale Substances N2 - The possibility of obtaining high-purity, isotopically modified and nanostructured elemental substances 29Si, 98Mo, and 100Mo, as well as 98Mox10By compounds from volatile halides under conditions of laser optical breakdown of a pulsed Nd:YAG laser is shown. Currently, research in the field of developing new methods for obtaining high-purity, isotopically modified and nanostructured substances is being actively conducted. Interest in Si and Mo combining these forms has noticeably increased. In nuclear medicine, 29Si-enriched nanoparticles can be used as contrast agents in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and 98Mo and 100Mo isotopes can be used to obtain the unstable 99mTc radioisotope. These applications do not require large amounts of isotopically modified Si and Mo. Their obtaining belongs to the problems of small chemistry. When obtaining isotopically modified Si and Mo, it is expedient to use their volatile fluorides, for which technologies of isotope enrichment and deep purification are well developed. These halides have high chemical and thermal stability; therefore, plasma-chemical methods based on the plasma of a pulsed discharge generated by laser breakdown can be promising for separating 29Si, 98Mo, and 100Mo from them. Laser breakdown in H2+Ar+SiF4 and H2+Ar+MoF6 mixtures in various stoichiometric ratios in the pressure range 30–760 Torr was carried out using a pulsed Nd:YAG laser. The pulse duration at a wavelength of 1064 nm was 15 ns, the repetition rate was 5 Hz. A pulse energy of 800 mJ was focused by a lens with a focal length of 5 cm. The energy density at the focus was 26 J/cm3 . It has been shown that when using a mixture based on 29SiF4, the sample contains a 29Si crystalline phase with an average grain size of 30–50 nm (Fig. 1a). When using a mixture based on 98MoF6, the sample contains a 98Mo crystalline phase with an average grain size of 70–100 nm (Fig. 1b). In this type of gas discharge, the possibility of forming superhard materials, isotopically modified molybdenum borides, was also studied. These substances in the form of nanosized particles have improved tribological properties. After ablation of metallic Mo in the H2 + BF3 mixture, the main phase was MoB2 in the form of a nanodispersed powder with an average grain size of 100 nm (Fig. 1c) [1]. A technique for modeling gas-dynamic and thermal conditions in a low-temperature chemically active plasma induced by laser breakdown is proposed. Using computational experiments, the features of gas mixture heating and the formation of nanoparticles in the LIBS reactor were studied T2 - 17the International Conference on Laser Applications in Life Sciences CY - Mugla, Turkey DA - 15.10.2023 KW - Laser induced plasma KW - Chemical vapor deposition KW - Isotopically enriched nanomaterials PY - 2023 AN - OPUS4-58888 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - INPR A1 - Gornushkin, Igor B. A1 - Kornev, R. A. A1 - Shabarova, L. V. A1 - Ermakov, A. A. A1 - Mochalov, G. M. A1 - Rekunov, N. V. A1 - Medov, V. A. A1 - Chaschina, A. D. A1 - Kalinina, A. A. T1 - Features of Plasma-Chemical Hydrogen Reduction of Volatile Silicon and Germanium Chlorides in RF-arc Discharge N2 - The processes of hydrogen reduction of silicon and germanium chlorides under the conditions of radio-frequency (40.68 MHz) counteracted arc discharge stabilized between two rod electrodes were investigated. The main gas-phase and solid products of plasma-chemical transformations were determined. Thermodynamic analysis of SiCl4 + H2 and GeCl4 + H2 systems was carried out. It is shown that under the implemented experimental conditions, equilibrium components of the products are established. The detected spectra of chemical activity were studied, which gave reason to assume that the molecular mechanism of the hydrogen reduction process is the main one. The impurity composition of gas-phase and solid reaction products was investigated. The possibility of single-stage production of high-purity Si and Ge mainly in the form of compact ingots, as well as high-purity chlorosilanes and trichlorogermane, was shown. KW - RF-arc discharge KW - Hydrogen reduction KW - Silicon chloride KW - Germanium chloride KW - Thermodynamic KW - Silicon KW - Germanium PY - 2023 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-588909 DO - https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202311.1412.v1 SP - 1 EP - 14 PB - MDPI CY - Basel AN - OPUS4-58890 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Gornushkin, Igor B. A1 - Mendez, Cristina A1 - Bordel, Nerea T1 - Investigation of LIBS-RF Plasma for Analytical Spectroscopy N2 - Laser breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is a common tool for applications in various fields of science and technology. Originally an atomic analysis technique, LIBS was later extended to molecular analysis due to the transient nature of the laser-induced plasma, which develops from a hot dissociation stage on a nanosecond to several microsecond scale to a relatively cold recombination stage on a scale of 10 to 100 microseconds after breakdown. Molecules formed during the recombination stage or incompletely dissociated after ablation can be efficiently detected, allowing the analysis of "difficult" elements or even molecular isotopes. However, with a small amount of ablated material and a short lifetime of the luminous plasma, analytical signals, especially molecular ones, can be very weak. Several methods have been proposed for reheating the plasma and increasing its lifetime, for example, a two-pulse LIBS or a LIBS combined with microwave radiation or with an electric spark discharge. Here we propose another one, LIBS combined with a capacitively coupled RF discharge at 13.6 MHz. The advantages of this combination are an increase in the lifetime of atomic and molecular emission and operation in a low-pressure atmosphere, which significantly reduces pressure line broadening and allows high-resolution spectroscopy. Another major advantage is operating in a chemically controlled atmosphere that can predictably drive desired chemical reactions. In this presentation, we will show the first results obtained with RF-LIBS combination. These will include separate and joint characterization of LIBS and RF plasmas and evaluation of its potential for elemental and molecular analysis and for plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition. T2 - SciX 2023 CY - Sparks, USA DA - 08.10.2023 KW - Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy KW - Capacitively coupled discharge KW - RF-LIBS combination KW - Plasma reheating PY - 2023 AN - OPUS4-58592 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Gornushkin, Igor B. T1 - Improved Data Processing for Accurate Plasma Diagnostics and Calibration-Free LIBS N2 - Many applications of LIBS require the measurement of plasma temperature and electron density, which in turn requires knowledge of the integrated line intensity and the shape of the spectral lines. While the integral intensity is preserved as light passes through the spectrometer, the shape emitted by an individual atom or ion is greatly distorted. This is due, firstly, to the transfer of light through the plasma (self-absorption), secondly, to the influence of the instrumental function of the spectrometer, and, thirdly, to the aberrations of the optical system. In addition, processing of spectral information, such as background removal, noise reduction, deconvolution, and line fitting, introduces additional errors in the reconstructed linewidth and line integral, which leads to erroneous temperature and electron density values. This communication will be devoted to the general shortcomings of spectral data processing and the resulting inaccuracies in determining the plasma parameters. The analysis is based on the use of synthetic spectra generated by plasma with known temperature and particle density. The estimation of errors caused by inadequate processing of the spectral data is made by comparing the initial and determined plasma parameters. As a result, an improved data processing method will be proposed that takes into account the spectrum distortion by the instrumental function and integration on the pixel detector. The former is accounted for by convolution (instead of deconvolution) of the estimated line profile using a predetermined slit function, and the latter is achieved by piecewise integration of the line profile by the pixel detector, taking into account the pixel size and uniform or non-uniform pixel separation. Recommendations will be made for which analytic function best approximates the observed spectral lines and examples will be given for the application of this routine to calibration-free LIBS using both synthetic and experimental data. T2 - SciX 2023 CY - Sparks, USA DA - 08.10.2023 KW - Laser induced plasma KW - Calibration-free analysis KW - Plasma modeling KW - Emission spectroscopy PY - 2023 AN - OPUS4-58591 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Gornushkin, Igor B. T1 - Importance of Spectral Resolution for Accurate Plasma Diagnostics with Implications for Calibration-Free LIBS N2 - In the LIBS literature, almost every second article reports the determination of the plasma temperature using the Boltzmann plot method or the determination of the electron density using the Stark line broadening relation. The first requires the measurement of the integrated intensities of the spectral lines, and the second requires the measurement of the linewidth, under the same assumption of optical thinness. It is taken for granted that this can be easily done either by working with the raw spectra or by fitting an appropriate function to the observed spectral lines. As a rule, reported data are not verified either by an alternative method (e.g., Thomson scattering) or by computer simulations using synthetic spectra. However, the question of how to extract the necessary information from the raw spectral data is not as simple as it might seem. The quality of such an extraction will depend critically on the type of spectral instrument used, its resolution, and the noise superimposed on the data. The problem is that we do not see the spectrum emitted by the plasma, but the spectrum distorted by the measurement; an exaggerated example of such a distortion is shown in Fig. 1. The elimination of this distortion belongs to the class of inverse problems, the so-called ill-posed problems, whose successful solution crucially depends on the quality of the information available. When it comes to spectroscopy, quality of information primarily means high spectral resolution and low noise. Not all spectrometers used in LIBS can provide the quality needed to solve the inverse problem; this casts doubt on many published plasma measurements. The current presentation will be devoted to general shortcomings in the processing of spectral data and inaccuracies in the determination of plasma parameters resulting from these shortcomings. The analysis is based on the use of synthetic spectra produced by plasma with known characteristics, i.e., temperature, species densities, and electron density. The estimation of errors caused by inadequate processing of spectral data is made by comparing the initial and reconstructed plasma parameters. Recipes will be given for which the analytic function best approximates the observed spectral lines, and how data processing errors affect accuracy of calibration-free LIBS will be discussed. These issues were only partially covered in previously published works, for example [1, 2, 3]. T2 - EMS LIBS 2023 CY - Porto, Portugal DA - 04.09.2023 KW - Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy KW - Calibration-free analysis KW - Data processing PY - 2023 AN - OPUS4-58590 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Gornushkin, Igor B. T1 - Improved Data Processing for Accurate Plasma Diagnostics with Implications for Calibration-Free LIBS N2 - Many LIBS papers report the determination of plasma temperature using the Boltzmann plot method or the determination of electron density using the Stark line broadening relation. This requires measuring the integrated intensities of the spectral lines and the linewidth under the assumption of optical thinness. It is taken for granted that this can be easily done either by working with the raw spectra or by fitting the appropriate function to the observed spectral lines. However, extracting the necessary information from raw spectral data is not as easy as it might seem. The quality of such extraction will depend to a decisive extent on the type of spectral instrument used. The spectrum emitted by the plasma is distorted by the device; an example is shown in Fig. 1. The elimination of this distortion belongs to the class of inverse problems, the successful solution of which fundamentally depends on the quality of the available information. When it comes to spectroscopy, the quality of information primarily means high spectral resolution and low noise. Not all spectrometers used in LIBS can provide the quality needed to solve the inverse problem; this casts doubt on many published plasma measurements. This communication will be devoted to the general shortcomings of spectral data processing and the inaccuracies in determining the plasma parameters resulting from these shortcomings. The analysis is based on the use of synthetic spectra generated by plasma with known temperature, particle density and electron density. The estimation of errors caused by inadequate processing of spectral data is made by comparing the initial and measured plasma parameters from the spectra. Recommendations will be made for which analytic function best approximates the observed spectral lines, and how data processing errors affect the accuracy of calibration-free LIBS will be discussed. These issues were only partially covered in previously published works, for example [1, 2]. T2 - Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale XLIII, The 5th Asian Symposium on Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy June 26-30, 2023 CY - Tokushima, Japan DA - 26.06.2023 KW - Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy KW - Calibration-free LIBS KW - Data processing PY - 2023 AN - OPUS4-58589 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Völker, Tobias A1 - Gornushkin, Igor B. T1 - Extension of the Boltzmann plot method for multiplet emission lines N2 - The Boltzmann plot method is widely used to determine the temperature of laser induced plasma. It involves the use of individual lines that are not easy to find in complex spectra and/or in the spectral range available. If the number of such lines is not enough to build a reliable Boltzmann plot, overlapping lines are often used, which are separated by software. However, line separation is a rather imprecise procedure, which, in addition, requires significant computational costs. This study proposes an extension of the Boltzmann plot method that allows a specific group of unresolved lines to be included in a Boltzmann plot without the need to separate them. This group of lines are multiplets, lines of the same element with similar upper and lower transition states. The multiplet lines along with the individual lines are included in the algorithm, which also includes a correction for self-absorption and is used to determine the plasma temperature. The algorithm is tested on synthetic spectra which are consistent with the model of a homogeneous isothermal plasma in local thermodynamic equilibrium and is shown to be superior to the standard Boltzmann plot method both in more accurate determination of the plasma temperature and in a significant reduction in the computational time. The advantages and disadvantages of the method are discussed in the context of its applications in laser induced breakdown spectroscopy. KW - LIBS KW - Spectroscopy KW - Boltzmann plot KW - Multiplet KW - Spectral overlap PY - 2023 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2023.108741 SN - 1879-1352 VL - 310 SP - 1 EP - 5 PB - Elsevier AN - OPUS4-58058 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -