Morphology of Laser Annealed AlN:Ag Thin Films

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Plasmonic nanoparticles (NPs) are emerging as a promising category of materials, which might find applications in optical storage of information, optical wave guiding, microelectronics, optical sensing and solar energy harvesting. We propose to study nanoparticles embedded into an AlN matrix, a promising dielectric matrix due to its transparency, inertness and hardness. By controlling the kinetics and energetics of Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) we managed to embed Ag nanospheres (diameter 3-3.5 nm) into AlN matrices following an almost cold process. The proposed SANS experiment will enable us to charachterise the size and distribution of the NPs within the matrix, which have been produced under different conditions (by laser annealing, at different energies and fluences). Unlike TEM, we will get an average over the whole processed sample.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24089284
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24089284
Provenance
Creator Dr Maxmilian Skoda; Professor Roger Eccleston; Professor Panos Patsalas; Dr Dimitris Anagnostopoulos; Dr Demosthenes Koutsogeorgis; Professor Wayne Cranton
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2012-07-25T06:04:53Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-07-26T08:25:19Z