A technique for efficiently generating bimetallic clusters
作者:
R. L. Wagner,
W. D. Vann,
A. W. Castleman,
期刊:
Review of Scientific Instruments
(AIP Available online 1997)
卷期:
Volume 68,
issue 8
页码: 3010-3013
ISSN:0034-6748
年代: 1997
DOI:10.1063/1.1148058
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
Reactivities of bimetallic clusters can be controlled by varying their composition, making them potentially valuable as catalysts and for use in elucidating the reactivities of such subnanoscale surfaces. A dual rod laser vaporization source coupled to a fast flow reactor is developed for the study of bimetallic clusters and their reactions. In order to establish the versatility of the technique, the results of studies are presented in which Nb/Al clusters are formed in two plasmas induced by the second harmonic (532 nm photons) of a single Nd:YAG laser and then detected by a quadrupole mass spectrometer. The beam from the laser is split and then focused onto each rod, allowing the mixing ratio within the cluster to vary by altering the laser fluence on each rod. With a low fluence on the Nb rod and a high fluence on the Al rod, an Al rich cluster distribution is formed,NbAlm− (m=2–20), andAlm− (m=5–31). By increasing the fluence on the Nb rod and decreasing the fluence on the Al rod, a Nb rich cluster distribution is formed,NbnAlm−(n=3–8andm=1–3),NbnOAlm − (n=3–8andm=1–5), andNbnO− (n=3–8). Additional characterization is also performed on V/Al clusters. ©1997 American Institute of Physics.
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