Laser-Induced Plasma Atomic and Ionic Emission During Target Ablation

This paper investigates the spectroscopy of plasma that resulted from the bombardment of ZnSe by using the optical emission spectroscopic (OES) technique. The plasma can be generated by the reaction between an Nd:YAG laser, with a wavelength of 1064[Formula: see text]nm with a repeat rate of 6[Formula: see text]Hz (as well as 9[Formula: see text]ns pulse duration), and a solid target, where the density of the electron (ne), the temperature of the electron ([Formula: see text]), the frequency of the plasma ([Formula: see text]) and the Debye length ([Formula: see text]) as plasma parameters, in addition to the particles’ number of Debye ([Formula: see text]) and plasma parameter ([Formula: see text]) have been calculated by picking up the spectrum of plasma at different energies (100, 200, 300, 400, 500) mj using Selenium (Se), Zinc (Zn) and the mixture (ZnSe) at ([Formula: see text]). It is found that the electron temperatures of Zn and Se ranged between (0.257–0.267)[Formula: see text]eV and (1.036–1.055) eV, respectively, while that of ZnSe ranged between (1.15–1.28)[Formula: see text]eV. This indicates that the electron temperature of ZnSe is higher than the temperatures of each Zn and Se.

A Universal Cassette-Based System for the Dissolution of Solid Targets

Cyclotron-based radionuclides production by using solid targets has become important in the last years due to the growing demand of radiometals, e.g., 68Ga, 89Zr, 43/47Sc, and 52/54Mn. This shifted the focus on solid target management, where the first fundamental step of the radiochemical processing is the target dissolution. Currently, this step is generally performed with commercial or home-made modules separated from the following purification/radiolabelling modules. The aim of this work is the realization of a flexible solid target dissolution system to be easily installed on commercial cassette-based synthesis modules. This would offer a complete target processing and radiopharmaceutical synthesis performable in a single module continuously. The presented solid target dissolution system concept relies on an open-bottomed vial positioned upon a target coin. In particular, the idea is to use the movement mechanism of a syringe pump to position the vial up and down on the target, and to exploit the heater/cooler reactor of the module as a target holder. All the steps can be remotely controlled and are incorporated in the cassette manifold together with the purification and radiolabelling steps. The performance of the device was tested by processing three different irradiated targets under different dissolution conditions.

Investigation of a Possible Material-Saving Approach of Sputtering Techniques for Radiopharmaceutical Target Production

Magnetron sputtering (MS) is a relatively new deposition technique, which is being considered among the cyclotron solid target (CST) manufacturing options now available, aiming at the medical radioisotopes yield for radiopharmaceutical production. However, the intrinsic high material losses during the deposition process do not permit its use with extremely expensive target materials, such as isotopically enriched metals/oxides. In this study, R&D technology for a new recovering shield is instead proposed to assess the dissipation of target material during the sputtering processes and, thus, an estimate of the material recovery that may be feasible and the related amount. The weight-loss analysis method is used to assess the material losses level inside the chamber during processing. In all tests carried out, a high-purity copper (99.99%) was used as a target material. As a result of this study, the material distribution for both magnetron and diode sputtering depositions can be calculated. The feasibility of the ultra-thick coatings growing, devoted to CST production, is demonstrated.

Criterion of drop fragmentation at a collision with a solid target (numerical simulation and experiment)

This paper is devoted to the study of the deformation and fragmentation of liquid droplets when they collide with masks and filters used for protection against infected droplets. In this paper, the local collision of a drop with a mask or filter is modeled numerically and experimentally by the example of the drop impact on a small obstacle. Studies allow tracing the fragmentation of oral and bronchial fluids and their transformation into the number of tiny droplets that spread infection in the air.