Journal
JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH
Volume 15, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11051-013-1446-3
Keywords
Au; Nanoparticles; Magnetron sputtering; Optical properties; Absorption; Surface plasmon resonance
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- Research Committee of the University of Patras [C.905/2009]
- Center for International Cooperation (C.I.C.) of the Freie Universitat Berlin
- TSMEDE
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We report on the growth of Au nanoparticles on Corning glass by direct current magnetron sputtering and on the optical absorption of the films. The substrate temperature was kept to relatively high temperatures of 100 or 450 degrees C. This lead to the growth of Au nanoparticles instead of smooth Au films as the surface energy of Au is much larger than the one of glass. The size of the particles depended on the substrate temperature and deposition time and was shown to follow a logarithmic normal distribution function. Both, the surface plasmon resonance position and bandwidth, were found to depend upon the average particle size. The surface plasmon resonance position showed a 75 nm continuous blue shift from 14 nm down to 2.5 nm average particle size. Thus, we have shown how to tune the nanoparticle size and surface plasmon resonance of Au by varying the substrate temperature and deposition time. The experimental results are reproduced reasonably using a method which is based on the size- and wavelength-dependent complex dielectric function of Au within the framework of the Mie theory for the optical properties of metallic nanospheres.
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