Nanoparticle production in arc generated fireballs of granular silicon powder

Recently we observed buoyant fireballs by arc igniting silicon that drift in air for several seconds and postulated that the low aggregate density was attributed to the formation of a network of nanoparticles that must completely surround the burning silicon core, trapping the heated vapor generated...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tsuyohito Ito, Mark A. Cappelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2012-03-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3681283