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A new laser-based method for real-time in situ measurement of thermophysical properties of materials has been developed. It entails production by a high-power laser pulse of a plasma plume from the surface of a condensed-phase specimen and simultaneous measurement of a material's response to the excitation. The specimen may be a solid or in a molten state at high temperatures. It has been shown that the thermal diffusivity can be determined, for instance, from the mass loss due to laser excitation. In one implementation the mass loss is determined from the impulse imparted on the surface by the ablated matter which is measured by an impulse transducer. In this paper, we present a new spectroscopic method for measurement of the mass loss, facilitating in situ non-contact measurement of the thermal diffusivity for the first time. An implementation of this method is described, whereby the thermal diffusivity of a complex layered surface is determined as a function of depth with resolutions as small as 13 nm.
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Kim, Y.W. Depth-Resolved Surface Thermophysical Property Measurement by Laser-Produced Plasmas. International Journal of Thermophysics 20, 1313–1323 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022691912319
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022691912319