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Fabrication of Monodispersed Silver Nanoparticles and their Collective Sharp Plasmonic Response

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Monodispersed silver (Ag) nanoparticles (NPs) were obtained by applying an electric field on unipolar-charged Ag NPs fabricated using a heterogeneous condensation technique in gas media. Well defined and charged Ag NPs were separated based on their sizes and were collected on quartz substrates. Thin films consisting of monodispersed Ag NPs with size ranging from 35 to 120 nm were prepared by varying an applied electric field during the fabrication process. Scanning electron microscope results showed that the samples have uniform size distribution. Coherent oscillations of conduction band electrons in gas medium induced by electromagnetic field and coupling of all similar plasmon resonances due to uniform Ag NPs size produced unique and interesting optical properties. Narrow extinction widths (∼41 to ∼69 nm) were observed compared to the width of polydispersed Ag sample. The ability to prepare samples in gas media and tune the plasmon resonance by merely varying an electric field during fabrication makes the method simple, fast, and highly economical.

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One of the authors (Pemba Lama) acknowledges the financial support given by Corning Incorporated. The authors also acknowledge the science department of City College of New York for the SEM facility.

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Suslov, A., Lama, P. & Dorsinville, R. Fabrication of Monodispersed Silver Nanoparticles and their Collective Sharp Plasmonic Response. Plasmonics 9, 493–497 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-013-9647-2

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