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Femtosecond laser induced desorption of water from silver nanoparticles

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The photodesorption mechanism of H2O from quartz-supported silver nanoparticles has been studied by femtosecond laser two-pulse correlation and fluence dependence measurements. With the laser wavelength close to the maximum of the (1,1) plasmon resonance of the nanoparticles, the desorption was found to be purely thermal, i.e., induced by coupling of the desorption coordinate to the nanoparticle lattice temperature, both in the low- and the high-coverage regimes. The lattice cooling times of the nanoparticles are in the range of several hundred ps, in accordance with recent time-resolved X-ray measurements. Also observed is a reversible red-shift of the nanoparticle plasmon modes with increasing H2O coverage which is attributed to dielectric screening.

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Kwiet, S., Starr, D., Grujic, A. et al. Femtosecond laser induced desorption of water from silver nanoparticles. Appl. Phys. B 80, 115–123 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-004-1656-6

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