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RSC ADVANCES
卷 5, 期 120, 页码 98814-98821出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5ra22052a
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- Canada Foundation for Innovation
- Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
We report a facile fabrication method for copper nanoparticle superlattices, based on thermal evaporation of ultrathin layers of copper on solution-processed thin films formed by few-layer graphene platelets. We show that the annealing of these systems in nitrogen without previous exposure to air prompts the heterogeneous nucleation of the Cu layer into nanoparticle superlattices self-assembled along specific crystallographic directions of graphene. Theoretical calculations suggest a lowest formation energy for Cu-nanoparticle arrays aligning along armchair directions, indicating that their self-assembly is energetically more favourable. The possibility of using these superlattices in evanescent waveguiding devices is explored by three-dimensional scanning near-field optical microscopy. The light-confining properties of our systems in the near-field indicate that our nanoparticle superlattices are poised to satisfy the technological demands required by nanophotonics devices.
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