Journal
ACS NANO
Volume 4, Issue 2, Pages 615-624Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nn901734d
Keywords
surface plasmon; transparent electrode; enhanced optical transmission; nanohole; nanoaperture; colloidal lithography; layer-by-layer deposition
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- Laboratory Directed Research and Development program at NREL
- NSF
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC36-99GO10337]
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Disordered nanohole arrays were formed in silver films by colloidal lithography techniques and characterized for their surface-plasmon activity. Careful control of the reagent concentration, deposition solution ionic strength, and assembly time allowed generation of a wide variety of nanohole densities. The fractional coverage of the nanospheres across the surface was varied from 0.05-0.36. Electrical sheet resistance measurements as a function of nanohole coverage fit well to percolation theory indicating that the electrical behavior of the films is determined by bulk silver characteristics. The transmission and reflection spectra were measured as a function of coverage and the results indicate that the optical behavior of the films is dominated by surface plasmon phenomena. Angle-resolved transmission and reflection spectra were measured, yielding insight into the nature of the excitations taking place on the metal films. The tunability of the colloidal lithography assembly method holds much promise as a means to generate customized transparent electrodes with high surface plasmon activity throughout the visible and NIR spectrum over large surface areas.
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