We studied monatomic
linear carbon chains stabilized by gold nanoparticles
attached to their ends and deposited on a solid substrate. We observe
spectral features of straight chains containing from 8 to 24 atoms.
Low-temperature PL spectra reveal characteristic triplet fine structures
that repeat themselves for carbon chains of different lengths. The
triplet is invariably composed of a sharp intense peak accompanied
by two broader satellites situated 15 and 40 meV below the main peak.
We interpret these resonances as an edge-state neutral exciton and
positively and negatively charged trions, respectively. The time-resolved
PL shows that the radiative lifetime of the observed quasiparticles
is about 1 ns, and it increases with the increase of the length of
the chain. At high temperatures a nonradiative exciton decay channel
appears due to the thermal hopping of carriers between parallel carbon
chains. Excitons in carbon chains possess large oscillator strengths
and extremely low inhomogeneous broadenings.
We stabilize monoatomic carbon chains in water by attaching them to gold nanoparticles (NPs) by means of the laser ablation process. Resulting nanoobjects represent pairs of NPs connected by multiple straight carbon chains of several nanometer lengths. If NPs at the opposite ends of a chain differ in size, the structure acquires a dipole moment due to the difference in work functions of the two NPs. We take advantage of the dipole polarisation of carbon chains for ordering them by the external electric field. We deposit them on a glass substrate by the sputtering method in the presence of static electric fields of magnitudes up to 105 V/m. The formation of one-dimensional carbyne quasi-crystals deposited on a substrate is evidenced by high-resolution TEM and X-ray diffraction measurements. The original kinetic model describing the dynamics of ballistically flowing nano-dipoles reproduces the experimental diagram of orientation of the deposited chains.
An experimental method for fabrication of a nanocomposite metamaterial based on a self-assembly of titanium dioxide microtubes with encapsulated gold nanoparticles (NPs) is proposed. The formation of microtubes is induced by laser irradiation in the presence of an external magnetic field. It is shown that the variation of the metal NP concentration leads to the increase of the optical absorption of the metamaterial. The possibility of using arrays of oriented microtubes as absorbing n-doped layers for solar cells is demonstrated.
In the article we introduce the experiment of the photostimulation effect in the tunneling conductivity of free-standing thin C-Au films. We observe a sharp increase of the conductivity of hybrid film due to the electromagnetic exciting at the frequencies which are close to the plasmon resonance of gold nanoparticles. The use of carbyne threads as a stabilizing matrix makes it possible to obtain free-standing thin films that demonstrate a good structural stability. The tunnel current-voltage measurements demonstrate a strong dependence of the current value on the intensity of green laser radiation used to photostimulate thin C-Au in area of the measuring experiment.
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