Poling-assisted bleaching of metal-doped nanocomposite glass

Olivier Deparis, Peter G. Kazansky, Amin Abdolvand, Alexander Podlipensky, Gerhard Seifert, Heinrich Graener

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    Abstract

    Thermal poling of soda-lime glass which was doped with spherical or ellipsoidal silver nanoparticles has revealed what we believe to be a phenomenon of general interest in the physics of nanocomposite materials: The field-assisted dissolution of metal nanoparticles embedded in glass. Macroscopically, this phenomenon manifested itself as poling-assisted bleaching of the glass in the sense that the glass became more (or even completely) transparent under the anode. The phenomenon is physically interpreted in terms of the ionization of metal nanoclusters followed by the removal of ions from the clusters and their drift in the depth, under the action of the extremely high electric field which is created underneath the anodic surface during poling. The underlying physical mechanism is expected to offer unique opportunities for the control of structural and optical properties of nanocomposite glasses. (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)872-874
    Number of pages3
    JournalApplied Physics Letters
    Volume85
    Issue number6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2004

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