Applied Physics A

, Volume 104, Issue 3, pp 829–837 | Cite as

Noble metal nanoparticles produced by nanosecond laser ablation

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Abstract

Silver and gold thin films were deposited by pulsed laser ablation in a controlled Ar atmosphere at pressures between 10 and 100 Pa. Different morphologies, ranging from isolated nanoparticle arrays up to nanostructured thin films were observed. Fast imaging of the plasma allowed deducing the expansion dynamics of the ablated plume. Plasma velocity and volume were used together with the measured average ablated mass per pulse as input parameters in a model to estimate the average size of nanoparticles grown in the plume. The nanoparticle size is expected to decrease from 4 nm down to 1 nm with decreasing Ar pressure between 100 and 10 Pa: this was confirmed by transmission electron micrographs which indicate a reduced dispersion of particle size over narrow size ranges. The production of substrates for surface enhanced Raman scattering whose performances critically depend on nanoparticle size, shape, and structure is discussed.

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Surface Enhance Raman Scatter Plasma Expansion Noble Metal Nanoparticles Transmission Electron Microscopy Picture Surface Enhance Raman Scatter Substrate 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Dipartimento di EnergiaPolitecnico di MilanoMilanoItaly
  2. 2.Dipartimento di Fisica della Materia e Ingegneria ElettronicaUniversità di MessinaMessinaItaly
  3. 3.Centro Interdipartimentale Microscopia AvanzataUniversità degli Studi di MilanoMilanoItaly
  4. 4.CNR-IPCFIstituto per i Processi Chimico-FisiciMessinaItaly

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