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Characterization of Plasma-Deposited Au/Fluoropolymer Nanocomposite Films for Nonlinear Optical Application

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

D. Dalacu ,
A. P. Brown ,
J. E. Klemberg-Sapieha ,
L. Martinu ,
M. R. Wertheimer ,
S. I. Najafi  and
M. A. Andrews
D. Dalacu
Affiliation:
Groupe des Couches Minces (GCM) and Engineering Physics and Materials Engineering Department, Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, Canada.
A. P. Brown
Affiliation:
Groupe des Couches Minces (GCM) and Engineering Physics and Materials Engineering Department, Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, Canada.
J. E. Klemberg-Sapieha
Affiliation:
Groupe des Couches Minces (GCM) and Engineering Physics and Materials Engineering Department, Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, Canada.
L. Martinu
Affiliation:
Groupe des Couches Minces (GCM) and Engineering Physics and Materials Engineering Department, Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, Canada.
M. R. Wertheimer
Affiliation:
Groupe des Couches Minces (GCM) and Engineering Physics and Materials Engineering Department, Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, Canada.
S. I. Najafi
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique, Montréal, Canada.
M. A. Andrews
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, McGill University, Montréal, Canada.
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Abstract

Nanocomposite films consisting of gold nanoclusters embedded in a fluorocarbon matrix were prepared by simultaneous plasma polymerization of a fluorocarbon gas and magnetron sputtering of a gold target. The optical constants of the films were determined using variable angle spectroscopic ellipsometry (VASE). The Maxwell-Garnett (M-G) effective medium theory (EMT) was used to extract the microstructural characteristics (gold volume fraction, cluster size). The predictions of the M-G EMT were compared with the results from x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Angle-resolved measurements suggest the presence of a carbonaceous layer at the cluster surface. The presence of such a layer is discussed in the context of its influence on the validity of the optical model

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 544: Symposium Y – Plasma Deposition and Treatment of Polymers , 1998 , 167
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1999

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