Influence of annealing temperature on structural, compositional, surface morphology, electrical, and optical properties of pulsed magnetron sputtered nanocrystalline Au:Ag:SnO2 films was investigated by several analytical techniques. From the XRD results, the films were polycrystalline with the absence of impurity phases and the films were grown preferentially in the (110) orientation of SnO2 with tetragonal st...
The nanocrystalline tin oxide (SnO2) films were deposited on glass substrates by pulsed magnetron sputtering technique and subsequently annealed from 200 to 500 °C. The structural, microstructural, electrical, and optical properties of as deposited and annealed SnO2 films were studied. The crystallinity degree of the films increased with annealing temperature. Photoluminescence (PL) measurements showed that the...
The focus of this research is the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis of thin films consisting of Au metal clusters embedded in a dielectric matrix of Al-O coatings. The coatings were deposited by co-sputtering an Al+Au target in a reactive atmosphere with Au contents up to 8 at.%. The Al-O matrix was kept amorphous even after annealing at 1000°C. In the as-deposited films the presence of Au cluster...
A SPR (ressonância dos plasmões de superfície) originada pela introdução de nanopartículas metálicas em matrizes dieléctricas possui um elevado leque de aplicações, sendo alvo de uma actividade intensa de investigação. De modo a tirar partido da forte extinção da luz em certas gamas do visível que estes sistemas proporcionam, foi objectivo deste trabalho desenvolver revestimentos nanocompósitos com efeito SPR p...
Ag–TiCN coatings were deposited by dc reactive magnetron sputtering and their structural and morphological properties were evaluated. Compositional analysis showed the existence of Ag–TiCN coatings with different Ag/Ti atomic ratios (ranging from 0 to 1.49). The structural and morphological properties are well correlated with the evolution of Ag/Ti atomic ratio. For the samples with low Ag/Ti atomic ratio (belo...
The present work is devoted to the optical properties of Au:TiO2 thin films in order to clarify the role of the Au clusters inclusions in the TiO2 dielectric matrix. Three series of films containing about 30 at.% (29.2), 20 at. % (19.8) and 10 at.% (9.3) Au were deposited by dc reactive magnetron sputtering. On thermal annealing in the range from 300 to 800 °C in protective atmosphere, significant changes on th...
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