Preparation of nanostructured ultrathin silver layer

0351588 - FZÚ 2011 RIV US eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Bulíř, Jiří - Novotný, Michal - Lynnyková, Anna - Lančok, Ján - Bodnár, Michal - Škereň, M.
Preparation of nanostructured ultrathin silver layer.
Nanostructured Thin Films III. Bellingham: SPIE, 2010 - (Martin-Palma, R.; Jen, Y.; Lakhtakia, A.), 77660Q/1-77660Q/7. Proceedings of SPIE, 7766. ISBN 9780819482624. ISSN 0277-786x.
[Nanostructured Thin Films III. San Diego (US), 04.08.2010-05.08.2010]
R&D Projects: GA AV ČR IAA100100718; GA AV ČR KAN400100653; GA ČR GP202/09/P324
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10100522
Keywords : ultra-thin silver layer * growth monitoring * optical properties
Subject RIV: BM - Solid Matter Physics ; Magnetism
http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.860634

Silver is widely used for a fabrication of plasmonic devices due to its unique optical constants. Nanostructured Ag layer can exhibit strong localized surface plasmon resonance, which mainly affects its optical behavior in visible and near infrared spectra. The nanostructure of the Ag layer is mainly influenced during the initial stage of the silver nucleation. Therefore we focused our attention on the study of this stage of the silver growth. The nanostructured ultrathin silver layers were prepared by means of the magnetron sputtering. The nucleation mode and the resulting nanostructure was controlled by the deposition conditions. The initial stage of the nucleation and the layer growth was studied by means of an optical monitoring, which is based on a principle of spectrophotometric measurement of sample reflectivity. The measured data were fitted to a model of layered structure.
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