Preparation and optical properties of gold nanoparticles embedded in barium titanate thin films

  • Yong Yang*
  • , Jianlin Shi
  • , Weiming Huang
  • , Shugang Dai
  • , Lin Wang
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

High amount of gold nanoparticles was successfully incorporated into amorphous BaTiO3 thin films by sol-gel process. Thiourea was applied to prevent Au ions from being reduced and aggregating as the effective stabilization agents. These films exhibited unique surface plasma resonance red-shifting and particular changes of surface plasma resonance intensity with the increase of heat-treating temperature, which could be attributed to the influence of BaTiO3 ferroelectric domains. The films also exhibited superfast nonlinear optical response and larger third-order nonlinear susceptibility χ(3), which was attributed to hot electron contribution.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1243-1248
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of Materials Science
Volume38
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Mar 2003
Externally publishedYes

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