Ultra-thin gold films on transparent polymers
Journal article, 2013
Fabrication of continuous ultra-thin gold films (<10 nm) on the surface of optical polymers (CYCLOTENE and ORMOCLEAR) is reported. Using a range of electrical, optical and structural characterization techniques, we show that polymers can be superior to more conventional (inorganic) materials as optical substrates for realizing ultra-thin gold films. Using these transparent polymer substrates, smooth, patternable gold films can be fabricated with conventional deposition techniques at room temperature, without adhesion or seeding layers, facilitating new photonic and plasmonic nanostructures, including transparent electrical contacts, thin film waveguides, metamaterials, biosensors and high-contrast superlenses.
WAVE-GUIDE
transparent electrodes
surface plasmons
SURFACE-PLASMON-POLARITON
DEVICES
optical polymers
ENHANCEMENT
thin metal films
METALS
ADHESION LAYER
X-ray analysis
GROWTH
Author
K. Leosson
University of Iceland
A. S. Ingason
Linköping University
Björn Agnarsson
Chalmers, Applied Physics, Biological Physics
A. Kossoy
University of Iceland
S. Olafsson
University of Iceland
M. C. Gather
Technische Universität Dresden
Nanophotonics
21928614 (eISSN)
Vol. 2 1 3-11Subject Categories
Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics
DOI
10.1515/nanoph-2012-0030