Electrohydrodynamic Acceleration of ES Jets

Speaker: 
Luis Perez Lorenzo
Seminar Date: 
Friday, March 8, 2019 - 7:00am
Location: 
Mann Student Center See map
10 Hillhouse Av, Dunham Lab, room 107
New Haven, CT

Electrosprays in vacuum generate clouds of charged particles moving at high velocities, this talk presents measurements from a new facility to study electrosprays of the heavy ionic liquid EMI-FAP by measuring: mass/charge (m/z), energy E(m/z), and angular distributions of the current density j”(angle) by using multiple concentric annular collector electrodes. Initial observations show that the energies of the various nanodrops and ions of given m/z are all well-defined, but depend notably on m/z, heavy particles having energies well above the potential of emission. In an attempt to rationalize this puzzling behavior, we hypothesize that a fair fraction of the high voltage available at the emitter is used to accelerate the liquid jet as a bulk to a substantial velocity Uj. Beyond this breakup point particles with different m/z are independently accelerated electrostatically in free flight, from the common final jet velocity to their final velocities, naturally resulting in m/z dependent total energies. This two-stage acceleration process explains completely the measured relation between E and m/z, yielding the electrical potential Vj and velocity Uj at the breakup point. Jet velocities as high as 0.6 km/s are measured at the breakup point, consuming up to half of the electrical potential at the emitter. 

Host: 
Corey O'Hern