Au/SiO2 nanocomposite films, studied in this work, were
prepared by RF-magnetron sputtering technique on glass substrate at room
temperature under two different substrate temperatures (Ts), and subsequent
heat treatment. For the deposited sample at TS = 25℃, no apparent
surface plasmon resonance peak could be observed. After annealing, optical
absorption spectrum of the Au/SiO2 thin films showed a broad
absorption band around 500 nm relating to gold nanoparticles without any
modification in the position of the SPR and the size of particles. For the
series deposited at TS = 400℃, the surface
plasmon resonance (SPR) was found at 500 nm. After heat treatment it’s redshift
from 500 nm to 503 nm, while the size increases from 2.01 nm to 2.3 nm. We have
also shown that, as the AuNPs are embedded in silica films, the small nanoparticles
size have a slightly larger expansion coefficient than for bigger one.
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