Rapid fabrication of silver nanowires through photoreduction from silver nitride in anodic aluminum oxide template
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Lin, Yu-Hsuan; Chen, Kun-Tso; Ho, Jeng-Rong
- Source
- CLEO/QELS: 2010 Laser Science to Photonic Applications Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on. :1-2 May, 2010
- Subject
- Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Photonics and Electrooptics
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Signal Processing and Analysis
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Silver
Fabrication
Nanowires
Aluminum oxide
Temperature
Optical pulses
Surface morphology
Biomembranes
Nanostructures
Chemicals
- Language
This study reports on a new photoreduction approach for growing dense and continuous silver nanowires from an anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) template. Silver nanoparticles are first reduced then merged to form nanowires in the AAO pores from dried silver nitride by laser irradiation. The morphology and composition of the grown nanostructures are characterized and the detailed photochemical growth mechanism is addressed. This method is rapid, low-cost, local reduction and can be executed in the ambient environment.