About

Frank C. De Lucia is an Emeritus Professor and Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Physics at The Ohio State University. His contact information includes an email address (delucia.2@osu.edu), phone number (614-688-4774), and office location in the Physics Research Building, 4146. His professional website and brief CV are also provided by the department. The page indicates his long-standing affiliation with Ohio State University and his role within the Department of Physics, but does not specify his research focus, background, or key contributions.

Research topics

• Physics
• Atomic physics
• Materials science
• Chemistry
• Optics

Selected publications

• Quantum monodromy in NCNCS – direct experimental confirmation

  Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics · 2023-01-01 · 1 citations

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  bending mode of NCNCS. As a side benefit we also confirm the power of the GSRB model to extract the required information from the previously available data. The predictions previously provided by the GSRB were surprisingly accurate. Only a slight augmentation of the model was required to allow us to refit it including the new data, while maintaining the quality of the fitting for that data previously available. We also present a very basic introduction to the idea of monodromy and to how the GSRB was used.

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• Quantitative analysis of composition and temperature of semiconductor processing plasmas via terahertz spectroscopy

  Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A Vacuum Surfaces and Films · 2022-06-10

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  The application of terahertz (THz) absorption spectroscopy was developed for chemical characterization in inductively coupled plasmas. Plasma processing is a complex and important tool of the semiconductor manufacturing industry, which makes use of several diagnostic methods for precise process control. Electronically based THz spectroscopy is a technique with favorable attributes for the characterization of plasmas and process control in semiconductor reactors. These attributes include (1) plasmas are transparent and noise-free for THz transmission/detection, (2) concentration and temperatures of molecules can be calculated from first principles without adjustable variables, and (3) the technique has very high resolution and has absolute specificity. However, rotational spectroscopy requires that the molecule have a permanent dipole moment, precluding direct observation of atomic and symmetric species such as fluorine or CF4. In this work, an electronically based 500–750 GHz absorption spectrometer and a method to accurately and simultaneously determine number densities and temperatures were developed. Density and temperature measurements of molecular species in Ar/CF4/CHF3 and N2/CF4/CHF3 plasmas as a function of flow ratio, power, and pressure will be discussed. In addition, a quantitative survey of spectroscopically measurable molecules and radicals was conducted for plasma mixtures using varying quantities of CF4, CHF3, N2, and O2 feedstock gases.

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• Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy for the detection and characterization of explosives

  Elsevier eBooks · 2022-01-01 · 6 citations

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• Commercial aluminum powders, Part I: Particle size characterization and slow heating rate thermal analysis

  Powder Technology · 2022-02-01 · 22 citations

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• Commercial aluminum powders, part II: Energy release rates induced by rapid heating via pulsed laser excitation

  Powder Technology · 2022-02-01 · 3 citations

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• Effect of sample morphology on the spectral and spatiotemporal characteristics of laser-induced plasmas from aluminum

  Applied Physics A · 2020-01-07 · 30 citations

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• Measuring fast and slow energy release from aluminum powders

  AIP conference proceedings · 2020-01-01 · 10 citations

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  Micron-sized aluminum (Al) powders are currently used in energetics applications, primarily for blast enhancement on extended timescales. A key goal in energetic materials research is to accelerate the reaction of metals during an explosion so that the detonation performance of the explosive is enhanced. Nano-sized Al particles have the potential to react faster than micron-sized Al, but suffer from issues such as the formation of a native oxide layer which delays reaction and strong agglomeration of the particles resulting in incomplete combustion. The mechanisms and timescale of energy release from Al at very high heating rates (1013 K/s) comparable to those behind a detonation front are of significant interest for energetic applications. For the first time, we have systematically investigated the fast (microsecond-timescale) energy release of Al following laser-induced breakdown ignition. A ns-pulsed laser was used to ignite 9 different Al powders ranging in size from 18 nm to <75 µm. A wide variety of diagnostics including the detection of time-resolved AlO emission and infrared combustion emission, high-resolution spectroscopy of the laser-induced plasma and subsequent combustion events, and high-speed imaging to measure the laser-induced shock velocities with improved time resolution were employed to understand the effect of particle size/shape, impurities, and active Al content on the rate of energy release.

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• Optimizing the Performance of Aluminized Explosives: Laser-Based Measurements of Energy Release and Spectroscopic Diagnostics

  2019 IEEE Research and Applications of Photonics in Defense Conference (RAPID) · 2019-08-01 · 6 citations

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  Methods for facilitating the fast energy release of aluminum to enhance detonation performance will be discussed. The energy release rates of milligram-quantity samples have been compared by measuring the laser-induced shock wave velocities and tracking the formation of AlO on both the microsecond- and millisecond-timescales.

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• CMOS terahertz receivers

  2018-04-01 · 20 citations

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  Recent advances of devices and circuits have made CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) integrated circuits technology an alternative for realizing capable and affordable THz systems. Coherent detection up to 410 GHz and incoherent detection up to 10 THz as well as an almost fully integrated receiver working from 225–280 GHz have been demonstrated using CMOS. Despite the fact that f <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">max</inf> of NMOS transistors has peaked around 320 GHz, it should be possible to coherently detect signals at frequencies beyond 1 THz and with some straightforward modification of processes, to incoherently detect signals at 40 THz in CMOS.

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Recent grants

• An experimental approach to the prediction of complete millimeter/submillimeter spectra at astrophysical temperatures: applications to confusion limited astrophysical observations

  NSF · $589k · 2012–2017

• Low Energy Collisions: Removing the Thermal Averaging

  NSF · $373k · 2003–2008

• An Experimental Approach to the Prediction of Complete Millimeter/Submillimeter Spectra at Astrophysical Temperatures: Applications to Confusion Limited Astrophysical Observations

  NSF · $489k · 2008–2013

Frequent coauthors

• Paul Helminger

  133 shared

• Eric Herbst

  121 shared

• Ivan R. Medvedev

  Wright State University

  92 shared

• Douglas T. Petkie

  Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  83 shared

• Thomas M. Goyette

  University of Massachusetts Lowell

  78 shared

• Manfred Winnewisser

  The Ohio State University

  57 shared

• Christopher F. Neese

  The Ohio State University

  42 shared

• K. V. L. N. Sastry

  40 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Physics

  Duke University

  1969