Laser-assisted fabrication of gold nanoparticle-composed structures embedded in borosilicate glass

• Nikolay Nedyalkov,
• Mihaela Koleva,
• Nadya Stankova,
• Rosen Nikov,
• Mitsuhiro Terakawa,
• Yasutaka Nakajima,
• Lyubomir Aleksandrov and
• Reni Iordanova

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2454–2463, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.244

• glass; laser nanostructuring; optical properties of composite materials; Introduction The unique optical properties of noble-metal nanoparticles continue to attract the attention of researchers, especially in view of the potential industrial applications. The basic characteristics of the interaction of

Properties of plasmonic arrays produced by pulsed-laser nanostructuring of thin Au films

• Katarzyna Grochowska,
• Katarzyna Siuzdak,
• Peter A. Atanasov,
• Carla Bittencourt,
• Anna Dikovska,
• Nikolay N. Nedyalkov and
• Gerard Śliwiński

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 2102–2112, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.219

• Academy of Sciences, 72 Tzarigradsko Shousse, 1784 Sofia, Bulgaria Chemistry of Interaction Plasma Surface (ChiPS), University of Mons, Rue du Parc 20, B-7000 Mons, Belgium 10.3762/bjnano.5.219 Abstract A brief description of research advances in the area of short-pulse-laser nanostructuring of thin Au

• . Keywords: Au nanostructures; laser dewetting; laser nanostructuring; plasmonic enhancement; self-organization; Introduction The capability of pulsed-laser beams to deliver energy to a precise space at a precise time stimulated developments of laser technology and a variety of applications in scientific

• to diffraction was observed [15]. Properties of the Au, Ag, and Cu nanostructures and also bi-metal nanosystems (known for broader tunability) such as Au/Ag and Au/Ni were reported in a number of papers where the keyword “laser nanostructuring” (or annealing) is used rather than “laser dewetting” [16