Ordered Gold Nanostructures on Saphire Surfaces: Fabrication and Optical Investigations

Crystallography reports. 2012. Vol. 57. No. 3. P. 415–420.

Muslimov A. E., Butashin A. V., Konovko A. A., Smirnov I. S., Roshchin B. S., Volkov Y. O., Angelutz A. A., Andreev A. V., Shkurinov A. P., Kanevsky V. M., Asadchikov V. E.

The possibilities of obtaining ordered gold nanoarrays on sapphire surfaces with oriented nanorelief are demonstrated. The structures are morphologically described using atomic force microscopy data. A study of the angular dependence of the reflectivity in the visible range of electromagnetic waves has revealed some features which are likely to indicate surface plasmon-polariton excitation at the air-gold interface under exposure to p-polarized radiation. The experimental results are found to be in good agreement with the theoretical calculations.

 

Keywords: магнетронное напыление, ordered gold nanostructures, sapphire surfaces with oriented nanorelief, magnetron sputtering, surface self-assembling process, atomic force microscopy, surface plasmon-polariton excitation, упорядоченные наноструктуры золота, сапфировые подложки с ориентированным нанорельефом, процесс поверхностной самоорганизации, атомно-силовая микроскопия, поверхностное плазмонно-поляритонное возбуждение, физика наноструктур, низкоразмерные структуры, мезоскопические структуры