Ultra-thin gold films on transparent polymers
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 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
Författare
K. Leosson
Háskóli Íslands
A. S. Ingason
Linköpings universitet
Björn Agnarsson
Chalmers, Teknisk fysik, Biologisk fysik
A. Kossoy
Háskóli Íslands
S. Olafsson
Háskóli Íslands
M. C. Gather
Technische Universität Dresden
Nanophotonics
21928614 (eISSN)
Vol. 2 1 3-11Ämneskategorier
Atom- och molekylfysik och optik
DOI
10.1515/nanoph-2012-0030