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Laser-Driven Precipitation and Modification of Silver Nanoparticles in Soda Lime Glass Matrix Monitored by On-line Extinction Measurements

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In this work, we investigated the effect of nanosecond laser irradiation at 532 nm on precipitation of Ag nanoparticles (NPs) in soda lime glasses doped with silver in the Ag + –Na +  ion-exchange process. Formation and subsequent modification of Ag NPs during laser irradiation were studied by on-line extinction measurements making use of the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR). These investigations were further completed using scanning and transmission electron microscopies to examine the average size and distribution of nanoparticles within the sample. It has been shown that formation of NPs, its kinetics and the particle size strongly depend on the fluence and the total number of deposited laser pulses. It has been found that Ag NPs form after some specific number of pulses and they rapidly grow in size and number until some maximal value of extinction has been reached. Further irradiation of such samples only results in destruction of precipitated NPs due to photo-breakup, laser ablation confirmed by strong plasma emission observation. Moreover, due to strong irradiation, the host matrix can also be affected by changing its refractive index which manifests as the blue shift of the LSPR.

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Acknowledgements

We wish to thank Nadège Ollier and Mohamed Chérif Sow from Jean Monnet University in Saint-Etienne for their profilometric measurements. The research was carried out with the equipment purchased thanks to the financial support of the European Regional Development Fund in the framework of the Polish Innovative Economy Operational Program (contract no. POIG.02.01.00-12-023/08). This work was also supported by the APR ContVerColl of the Région Centre (France) and by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education grant NN202 031136.

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  1. Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, ul. Reymonta 4, 30-059, Kraków, Poland

    Michał Grabiec, Aleksandra Wolak & Krzysztof Dzierżęga

  2. PRISME Institute EA 4229, Université d’Orleans, 21 Rue Loigny La Bataille, 28000, Chartres, France

    Olivier Véron & Jean-Philippe Blondeau

  3. CEMHTI, CNRS/Université d’Orléans, Avenue de la Recherche Scientifique, 45071, Orléans cedex 2, France

    Nadia Pellerin & Mathieu Allix

  4. GREMI-Site de Bourges, Université d’Orléans/CNRS, Rue Gaston Berger, BP4043, 18028, Bourges cedex, France

    Stephane Pellerin

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Grabiec, M., Wolak, A., Véron, O. et al. Laser-Driven Precipitation and Modification of Silver Nanoparticles in Soda Lime Glass Matrix Monitored by On-line Extinction Measurements. Plasmonics 7, 279–286 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-011-9304-6

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