An approach to surface functionalization of indium tin oxide for regular growth of silver nano-particles and their optical features

Nanoscale synthesis and optical features of metallic nickel nanoparticles by wet chemical approaches

“…The latter may be promising for nonlinear optical and spintronics applications [22,23]. It is also important that additional broadening is the SPR spectra was observed in the Ag NP [2], which confirm the same origin of the broadening and possible attraction to the ITO substrate. …”

“…[1,2]. The synthesis of metallic NP with homogenous sizes indicates that control of their size is necessary to evaluate their properties and potential applications in several areas such as microelectronics, optoelectronics, catalysis, photocatalysis, magnetic materials, information storage, among others [3][4][5][6][7][8].…”

Kinetics of picosecond laser treatment of silver nanoparticles on ITO substrate

“…The attachment of AgNPs on ITO substrate was achieved by the seed-mediated growth method, allowing the fabrication of homogeneous dense and uniform AgNPs on ITO [2,7]. In the present work, at the beginning an ITO substrate was immersed during 2 h in a seed solution possessing 4 nm sizes of Ag nanoparticles, which were fabricated by the NaBH4 reduction of AgNO3 with trisodium citrate.…”

“…The incorporation of silver nanoparticles could decrease the crystallization temperature and inhibits the growth of indium oxide. Recently, we have investigated the formation of uniform silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) on indium tin oxide (ITO) thin films deposited on glass substrate [2]. We have observed that the surface energy and the contact angle during the seed and growth process is one of the crucial factors that influence the size of the nanoparticles and their final physical properties.…”

Plasmonic effect of silver nanoparticles intercalated into mesoporous betalain-sensitized-TiO2 film electrodes on photovoltaic performance of dye-sensitized solar cells

“…Noble plasmonic metal nanostructures, such as gold (Au), silver (Ag) [18,19], aluminum (Al) [20], their alloys [16], and their core-shell formation [21][22][23][24][25], have been incorporated into DSSCs to effectively utilize the incident photon and improve cell performance. Many methods, both chemical and physical categories, including, wet chemical [26], polyol process [27], seed-mediated growth [28], photochemical [29], sonochemical [30], electrochemical [31], bioinspired [32], sputtering [33], and laser ablation [34], which have been, hitherto, reportedly employed to synthesize various plasmonic Ag nanostructures, possess one disadvantage or the other, such as toxic reducing agents, impurities, organic solvents, or may require special condition like high-temperature or low-pressure environment, and sometimes expensive and time-consuming procedures may be involved [35].…”