Mukherjee, Smita and Das, Pradip Shekhar and Choudhuri, Madhumita and Datta, Alokmay and Ghosh, Jiten and Mukhopadhyay, Anoop Kumar (2017) Surfactant Assisted Au Nanoparticle Layering in Titanium Oxide Thin Films. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1832. Article No-080034-1 . ISSN 0094-243X

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Abstract

Au Nanoparticle (NP) decorated TiO2 thin films, prepared by a unique surfactant assisted 2D self-assembling technique with molecular level control, showed significant decrease in optical band gap as well as enhanced crystallinity compared to its sol-gel prepared pristine counterpart. Spin coated Au NP overlayers on titania in absence of surfactant, on the other hand, had no appreciable effect on either band gap or crystal structure compared to undoped TiO2 films. Apart from exhibiting band gap tuning of TiO2, this cheap, scalable technique of surfactant aided deposition of 2D layers of Au NPs on semiconducting oxides, may be used for development of multilayered structures with promising light harvesting and unidirectional energy transfer (LUET) applications.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	61st DAE-Solid State Physics Symposium, KIIT Univ, Bhubaneswar, INDIA, DEC 26-30, 2016
Subjects:	Engineering Materials
Divisions:	UNSPECIFIED
Depositing User:	Bidhan Chaudhuri
Date Deposited:	29 Jan 2018 11:53
Last Modified:	29 Jan 2018 11:53
URI:	http://cgcri.csircentral.net/id/eprint/4079

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