Nucleation of Gold in the Electric Field on the Surface of Template

Authors M.Yu. Barabash1, E.L. Martynchuk1, D.A. Grynko2, R.V. Litvin3
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1 Technical Centre National Academy of Science of Ukraine, 13 Pokrovskaya Str., 04070 Kiev, Ukraine

2 Institute of Semiconductor Physics NAS of Ukraine 41 Nauki. Pr., 03680, Kiev, Ukraine

3 I. M. Frantsevich Institute for Problems of Materials Sciences of NAS Ukraine, 3, Krzhizhanovskoho Str., 03680, Kyiv, Ukraine

Е-mail bashik_77@ukr.net
Issue Volume 6, Year 2014, Number 1
Dates Received 13 January 2014; published online 06 April 2014
Citation M.Yu. Barabash, E.L. Martynchuk, D.A. Grynko, R.V. Litvin, J. Nano- Electron. Phys. 6 No 1, 01029 (2014)
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PACS Number(s) 36.20. – r, 42.70. – a, 42.70.Jk
Keywords Electrostatic Template, Nanoclusters (4) , Electric field (6) , Nanocomposite (27) .
Annotation The comparative study of gold nanoclusters phase formation processes in the matrix of poly-N-vinil-carbazole ( PVCa) at co-condensation from the gas phase in local electric field near the surface of the template and on the surface of neutral substrates is investigated. TEM studies have directly observed the golden critical nuclei in the PVCa matrix and determine their size. Experimentally proved that the size of the gold critical nuclei is 1.9 nm, whereas in the non-uniform electric field of the template is reduced it to 1.2 nm. Modelling the influence of polarization component on Au nucleation within the thermodynamic approach to electrically charged and neutral gold nanoclusters showed the possibility of the existence of the measured changes in the critical nucleus size in the field 108-1010 V/m.

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