Giant plasmonic bubbles nucleation under different ambient pressures

Binglin Zeng, Yuliang Wang, Mikhail E. Zaytsev, Chenliang Xia, Harold J. W. Zandvliet, and Detlef Lohse
Phys. Rev. E 102, 063109 – Published 29 December 2020

Abstract

Water-immersed gold nanoparticles irradiated by a laser can trigger the nucleation of plasmonic bubbles after a delay time of a few microseconds [Wang et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 122, 9253 (2018)]. Here we systematically investigated the light-vapor conversion efficiency, η, of these plasmonic bubbles as a function of the ambient pressure. The efficiency of the formation of these initial-phase and mainly water-vapor containing bubbles, which is defined as the ratio of the energy that is required to form the vapor bubbles and the total energy dumped in the gold nanoparticles before nucleation of the bubble by the laser, can be as high as 25%. The amount of vaporized water first scales linearly with the total laser energy dumped in the gold nanoparticles before nucleation, but for larger energies the amount of vaporized water levels off. The efficiency η decreases with increasing ambient pressure. The experimental observations can be quantitatively understood within a theoretical framework based on the thermal diffusion equation and the thermal dynamics of the phase transition.

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  • Received 26 August 2020
  • Accepted 8 December 2020

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.102.063109

©2020 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Fluid Dynamics

Authors & Affiliations

Binglin Zeng1,2,3,4, Yuliang Wang1,2,3,*, Mikhail E. Zaytsev2,4, Chenliang Xia1, Harold J. W. Zandvliet4,†, and Detlef Lohse2,5,‡

  • 1School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Beihang University, 37 Xueyuan Rd, Haidian District, Beijing, China
  • 2Physics of Fluids Group, Department of Applied Physics and J. M. Burgers Centre for Fluid Dynamics, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
  • 3Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, 37 Xueyuan Rd, Haidian District, Beijing, China
  • 4Physics of Interfaces and Nanomaterials, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
  • 5Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Am Fassberg 17, 37077 Göttingen, Germany

  • *wangyuliang@buaa.edu.cn
  • h.j.w.zandvliet@utwente.nl
  • d.lohse@utwente.nl

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Vol. 102, Iss. 6 — December 2020

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