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Porosity-moderated ultrafast electron transport in Au nanowire networks

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We demonstrate for first time the ultrafast properties of a newly formed porous Au nanostructure. The properties of the porous nanostructure are compared with those of a solid gold film using time-resolved optical spectroscopy. The experiments suggest that under the same excitation conditions the relaxation dynamics are slower in the former. Our observations are evaluated by simulations based on a phenomenological rate equation model. The impeded dynamics has been attributed to the porous nature of the structure in the networks, which results in reduced efficiency during the dissipation of the laser-deposited energy. Importantly, the porosity of the complex three-dimensional nanostructure is introduced as a geometrical control parameter of its ultrafast electron transport.

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Acknowledgements

This work was carried out at the Ultraviolet Laser Facility operating at IESL-FORTH with support from the EC project “Laserlab-Europe II” (FP7-Infrastructures-2008-1, Grant Agreement No: 228334). The authors thank A. Manousaki and L. Papoutsakis for their expert assistance in obtaining SEM and XRD data and the European Commission for financial support through the Marie-Curie Transfer of Knowledge program NANOTAIL (Grant no. MTKD-CT-2006-042459). AGK thanks the University of Southampton (nanousrg) for financial support and the Research Council UK (RCUK) for a Roberts fellowship.

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  1. Foundation for Research and Technology—Hellas, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, N. Plastira 100, P.O. Box 1385, 71110, Heraklion, Greece

    Evaggelos Magoulakis, Athanasia Kostopoulou, Georgios N. Arvanitakis, Antonis N. Andriotis, Alexandros Lappas & Panagiotis A. Loukakos

  2. Physics Department, University of Crete, P.O. Box 2208, 71409, Heraklion, Greece

    Evaggelos Magoulakis & Georgios N. Arvanitakis

  3. Chemistry Department, University of Crete, Voutes, 71003, Heraklion, Greece

    Athanasia Kostopoulou

  4. Physics & Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, Hants, UK

    Antonios G. Kanaras

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Magoulakis, E., Kostopoulou, A., Arvanitakis, G.N. et al. Porosity-moderated ultrafast electron transport in Au nanowire networks. Appl. Phys. A 111, 711–717 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-013-7647-x

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