Preadhesion Laser Treatment of Aluminum Surfaces

An excimer laser may be used for preadhesion treatment of aluminum alloys. This method presents an alternative to the use of ecologically unfriendly chemicals involved in conventional anodizing pretreatments.

Experimental results indicate that preadhesion laser surface treatment significantly improved the shear strength of modified-epoxy bonded aluminum specimens compared with untreated and anodized substrates. The best results were obtained with laser energy of about 0.2 J/Pulse/cm² where single lap shear strength was improved by 600-700% compared with that of untreated Al alloy, and by 40% compared with chromic acid anodizing pretreatment.

The mode of failure changed from adhesive to cohesive as the number of laser pulses increased during treatment. The latter phenomenon has been correlated with morphology changes as revealed by electron microscopy, and chemical modification as indicated by Auger and infrared spectroscopy.

It can be concluded that the excimer laser has potential as a precise, clean and simple preadhesion treatment of Al alloys.     

硅酸盐激光玻璃的离子交换增强

用离子交换法能使硅酸盐激光玻璃机械强度增加２－３倍，激光强度增加３倍，从而弥补了自身热光系数较大的缺点。虽然玻璃在处理后，阈值稍微升高，效率稍有下降，但因允许输入更大的能量，使输出得到３倍的增加，说明了离子交换增强方法是成功的。     

Use of laser scanning confocal microscopy for characterizing changes in film thickness and local surface morphology of UV-exposed polymer coatings

Laser scanning confocal microscopy (LSCM) has been used to characterize the changes in film thickness and local surface morphology of polymer coatings during the UV degradation process. With the noninvasive feature of LSCM, one can obtain thickness information directly and nondestructively at various exposure times without destroying the specimens or deriving the thickness values from IR measurement by assuming uniform film ablation. Two acrylic polymer coatings were chosen for the study, and the physical and chemical changes of the two systems at various exposure times were measured and analyzed. Those measurable physical changes caused by UV exposure include film ablation, formation of pits and other surface defects, and increases in surface roughness. It was found in both coatings that changes in measured film thickness by LSCM were not correlated linearly to the predicted thickness loss using the changes in the CH band obtained by the Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy measurements in the later degradation stages. This result suggested it was not a uniform film ablation process during the UV degradation. At later stages, where surface deformation became severe, surface roughness and profile information using LSCM were also proven to be useful for analyzing the surface degradation process Presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology, November 13–14, 2004 in Philadelphia, PA.     

Isotactic polypropylene hollow microfibers prepared by CO2 laser‐thinning

An isotactic polypropylene hollow microfiber was continuously produced by using a carbon dioxide (CO₂) laser‐thinning method. To prepare the hollow microfiber continuously, the apparatus used for the thinning of the solid fiber was improved so that the laser can circularly irradiate to the hollow fiber. Original hollow fiber with an outside diameter (OD) of 450 μm and an internal diameter (ID) of 250 μm was spun by using a melt spinning machine with a specially designed spinneret to produce the hollow fiber. An as‐spun hollow fiber was laser‐heated under various conditions, and the OD and the ID decreased with increasing the winding speed. For example, when the hollow microfiber obtained by irradiating the CO₂ laser to the original hollow fiber supplied at 0.30 m min^?1 was wound up at 800 m min^?1, the obtained hollow microfiber had an OD of 6.3 μm and an ID of 2.2 μm. The draw ratio calculated from the supplying and the winding speeds was 2667‐fold. The hollow microfibers obtained under various conditions had the hollowness in the range of 20–30%. The wide‐angle X‐ray diffraction patterns of the hollow microfibers showed the existence of the highly oriented crystallites. Further, the OD and ID decreased, and the hollowness increased by drawing hollow microfiber obtained with the laser‐thinning. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 102: 2600–2607, 2006     

Ce:Nd:ZnWO4激光晶体的生长及其光谱性能

采用提拉法生长出光学质量的Nd:ZnWO4,Ce:ZnWO4和Ce:Nd:ZnWO4晶体.通过X射线衍射仪对晶体样品的微观结构进行了分析.测试了晶体的吸收光谱、电感耦合等离子体原子发射光谱和荧光光谱.根据Judd-Ofelt理论计算出Nd:ZnWO4晶体中Nd3 的强度参数为:Ω2=6.820 2×10-20 cm2,Ω4=0.463 3×10-20 cm2,Ω6=0.443 5×10-20 cm2.研究了Ce3 和Nd3 之间的能量转移现象.结果表明:Nd3 在850 nm激发时产生上转换发射峰位于474 nm和572 nm处,分别对应于2G9/2,4K13/2到基态能级4I9/2跃迁,计算出该峰的自发辐射几率为1 360 s-1,荧光寿命为7.353×10-4 s,发射截面为0.905 9×10-23 cm2.     

Application of CO2 laser heating zone drawing and zone annealing to nylon 6 fibers

Nlon 6 fibers were zone drawn and zone annealed by using a continuous wave carbon dioxide laser to develop their mechanical properties. A laser‐heating zone drawing was carried out under a applied tension of 35.4 MPa at a power density of 9.65 W · cm^?2, and then the zone‐drawn fiber was annealed. A laser‐heating zone annealing was carried out in two steps at a power density of 9.65 W · cm^?2; the first step was carried out under 423 MPa and the second under 517 MPa. The treating temperature of the fiber heated by the CO₂ laser was measured by using an infrared thermographic camera equipped with a magnifying lens. The treating temperature at the zone drawing is 138°C, and those at the first and the second zone annealing are 121 and 125°C, respectively. The second laser‐heated zone‐annealed fiber has a birefringence of 65.2 × 10^?3, a degree of crystallinity of 54%, and a storage modulus of 21 GPa at 25°C. Wide‐angle X‐ray diffraction patterns for the laser‐heated zone‐drawn and the zone‐annealed fibers show (200) reflection and (002/202) doublet due to only an α form on the equator. The laser‐heated zone‐drawn fiber has a melting endotherm peaking at 216°C and a trace of shoulder on the higher temperature side of its peak, and the laser‐heated zone‐annealed fibers have a single melting endotherm peaking at 216°C. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 83: 1711–1716, 2002     

高灵敏度弱磁传感器研究

磁传感器在生物医学、资源探测和航空航天等领域有巨大的应用价值,基于原子自旋的弱磁传感器拥有目前最高的磁场测量灵敏度。但通常的方案采用射频场调制或远离共振的激光检测,前者增加了磁力仪的线宽,而后者对激光频率的锁定带来了困难。为了解决以上问题,提出了一种基于激光强度调制和圆二向色性检测的原子弱磁传感器方案,详细描述了其工作原理和系统构成,并对原子弱磁传感器的性能进行了测试。实验结果表明:原子弱磁传感器的磁共振线宽为22 Hz,在对恒定磁场进行30 min连续测量时,峰峰值抖动小于9 pT,灵敏度达到了0.12 pT/Hz1/2。     

基于中红外QCL的痕量CO气体传感器

为了减少CO爆炸给国民经济造成的巨大损伤,提出了一种能够快速地监测环境空气中痕量CO的气体传感器。由于CO分子基频吸收谱带的吸收线强要比泛频带和组合频带的吸收线强高出2～3个数量级,选择激射中心波长为4.65μm中红外量子级联激光器（QCL）作为光源,同时再配合长光程Herriott气室提高了CO体积分数检测下限。同时,该传感器采用单光源双探测器差分光学结构,消除了电调制光源所带来的不稳定性。实验表明：该传感器CO体积分数检测下限为2×10-6,并且操作人员可以通过替换在不同波长下运行的中红外QCL来测量其它气体。     

超声CO激光的现状和展望(续)

介绍了200kWCW超声电子束连续CO激光器（SSCO－EIL）开环实物模型的能量和光谱特征的实验研究结果，以及增加SSCO－EIL的输出功率，谱线选择性，Q－开关激光作用的数字计算结果，同时讨论了SSCO－EIL的特性对几种激光技术效率的影响，由于激光能量利用率的增加和能量成本的降低，SSCO－EIL拥有的无与伦比的能量和特有的特征，将大大拓宽激光技术的应用领域。