Investigation of water evaporation process at air/water interface using hofmeister ions

B Rana, DJ Fairhurst, KC Jena - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Evaporation is an interfacial phenomenon in which a water molecule breaks the
intermolecular hydrogen (H−) bonds and enters the vapor phase. However, a detailed …

A versatile interferometric technique for probing the thermophysical properties of complex fluids

G Verma, G Yadav, CS Saraj, L Li, N Miljkovic… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Laser-induced thermocapillary deformation of liquid surfaces has emerged as a promising
tool to precisely characterize the thermophysical properties of pure fluids. However …

Tunable Optofluidic Curvature for Micromanipulation

G Verma, G Yadav, Y Shi, LM Zhou… - Laser & Photonics …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Manipulating micro/nanoparticles on deformed liquid interfaces induced by radiation
pressure presents an active, non‐invasive, and contactless method. However, a significant …

Unveiling photon-driven nonlinear evaporation via liquid drop interferometry

G Verma, V Kumar, A Kumar, W Li - Optics Letters, 2024 - opg.optica.org
We investigated photomolecular-induced evaporation, wherein photons cleave off water
clusters near water–vapor interfaces, bypassing the typical thermal evaporation process …

Compact picometer-scale interferometer using twisted light

G Verma, G Yadav - Optics Letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We propose a simple compact interferometer using twisted light to detect picometer
displacement on a solid or liquid surface. The heart of the interferometer lies in producing a …

Thin-film dynamics unveils interplay between light momentum and fluid mechanics

G Verma, G Yadav, W Li - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We quantitatively measure the nanomechanical dynamics of a water surface excited by the
radiation pressure of a Gaussian/annular laser beam of incidence near total internal …

Simultaneous measurement of monocomponent droplet temperature/refractive index, size and evaporation rate with phase rainbow refractometry

Y Wu, C Crua, H Li, S Saengkaew, L Mädler… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2018 - Elsevier
The accurate measurements of droplet temperature, size and evaporation rate are of great
importance to characterize the heat and mass transfer during evaporation/condensation …

Femtosecond laser ablation of dielectric materials in the optical breakdown regime: Expansion of a transparent shell

M García-Lechuga, J Siegel… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Phase transition pathways of matter upon ablation with ultrashort laser pulses have been
considered to be understood long-since for metals and semiconductors. We provide …

Phase interferometric particle imaging for simultaneous measurements of evaporating micron-sized droplet and nanoscale size changes

Y Wu, H Li, M Brunel, J Chen, G Gréhan… - Applied physics …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We have developed phase interferometric particle imaging (PHIPI) of Mie scattering to
simultaneously measure the spherical and transparent droplet size at the micron scale and …

Revealing light momentum in dielectric media through standing-wave radiation pressure

G Verma, V Kumar, W Li - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
Air-water interface deformation has been used as a testbed to resolve the momentum of light
debate (Abraham-Minkowski) inside the dielectric medium, but to date, experiments or …