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Laser-assisted one-step fabrication of homogeneous glass–silver composite

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Glass doped with silver ions was fabricated using a dry technique and then irradiated at the scanning speed of 14 mm s−1 using a nanosecond pulsed Nd:YVO4 laser operating at 355 nm. This led to the spatially selective, one-step precipitation of silver particles and fabrication of a homogeneously structured optical composite material: glass–silver composite. The optical and structural properties of such composite material can be designed at will, which could have potential impact on light/plasmon wave and sensing technologies, optoelectronics, and surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy.

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This work was conducted under the aegis of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of the United Kingdom (EP/I004173/1). Amin Abdolvand is an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow at the University of Dundee.

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Wackerow, S., Abdolvand, A. Laser-assisted one-step fabrication of homogeneous glass–silver composite. Appl. Phys. A 109, 45–49 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-012-7088-y

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