Abstract
A kind of Au nanoparticle (NP) containing 2D hexagonal mesoporous TiO 2 thin films (MTTFs) has been successfully synthesized through a deposition-precipitation method. The Au NPs show uniform size distribution and the An content within the MTTFs is measured to be 7.49 wt.%. The third-order nonlinear optical refractive index of the Au NPs contained MTTFs has been measured by the Z-scan technique at 1064 nm. The absolute value of nonlinear refractive index (n2) and third-order nonlinear susceptibility (χ(3)) were calculated to be 2.64 × 10-7 and 6.32 × 10-8 esu, respectively. The high nonlinearity of the composite thin films can be attributed to the intraband transition of electrons near the Fermi surface in well-dispersed Au NPs confined in mesoporous channels and the high linear refractive index of the nanocrystalline anatase framework.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 107-112 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 2009 |
| Externally published | Yes |