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Bleaching of sol-gel glass film with embedded gold nanoparticles by thermal poling

Bleaching of sol-gel glass film with embedded gold nanoparticles by thermal poling
Bleaching of sol-gel glass film with embedded gold nanoparticles by thermal poling
Gold clusters embedded in glass are expected to be hard to dissolve in the form of ions since gold is essentially a nonreactive metal. In spite of that, bleaching of Au-doped nanocomposite sol-gel glass film on a soda-lime glass substrate is demonstrated in which electric-field thermal poling is employed to effectively dissolve randomly distributed gold nanoparticles (15 nm in diameter) embedded in a low conductivity sol-gel glass film with a volume filling factor as small as 2.3%. The surface plasmon absorption band at 520 nm is suppressed in the region covered by the anodic electrode. The phenomenon is explained by the ionization of the gold nanoparticles and the redistribution of gold ions in the glass matrix due to the action of the extremely high electrostatic field locally developed during poling.
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Mezzapesa, Francesco P.
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Carvalho, Isabel C.S.
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Kazansky, Peter G.
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Kawazu, Mitsuhiro
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Kazansky, Peter G.
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Mezzapesa, Francesco P., Carvalho, Isabel C.S., Kazansky, Peter G., Kawazu, Mitsuhiro and Sakaguchi, Koichi (2006) Bleaching of sol-gel glass film with embedded gold nanoparticles by thermal poling. Applied Physics Letters, 89 (183121), 1-3. (doi:10.1063/1.2382728).

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Gold clusters embedded in glass are expected to be hard to dissolve in the form of ions since gold is essentially a nonreactive metal. In spite of that, bleaching of Au-doped nanocomposite sol-gel glass film on a soda-lime glass substrate is demonstrated in which electric-field thermal poling is employed to effectively dissolve randomly distributed gold nanoparticles (15 nm in diameter) embedded in a low conductivity sol-gel glass film with a volume filling factor as small as 2.3%. The surface plasmon absorption band at 520 nm is suppressed in the region covered by the anodic electrode. The phenomenon is explained by the ionization of the gold nanoparticles and the redistribution of gold ions in the glass matrix due to the action of the extremely high electrostatic field locally developed during poling.

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Published date: 30 October 2006

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Local EPrints ID: 46940
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/46940
ISSN: 0003-6951
PURE UUID: a76ea796-2e99-418f-85f2-f82d524eaa6c

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Date deposited: 24 Jul 2007
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 09:28

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Author: Francesco P. Mezzapesa
Author: Isabel C.S. Carvalho
Author: Mitsuhiro Kawazu
Author: Koichi Sakaguchi

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