Self-assembled HfO2-Au nanocomposites with ultra-fine vertically aligned Au nanopillars

Zhang, Yizhi; Zhang, Di; Liu, Juncheng; Lu, Ping; Deitz, Julia; Shen, Jianan; He, Zihao; Zhang, Xinghang; Wang, Haiyan

doi:10.1039/d2nr03104c

Self-assembled HfO₂-Au nanocomposites with ultra-fine vertically aligned Au nanopillars

Journal Article · Fri Jul 22 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Nanoscale

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1039/d2nr03104c· OSTI ID:1881774

^[1]; ^[2]; Liu, Juncheng ^[1]; Lu, Ping ^[3]; Deitz, Julia ^[3]; Shen, Jianan ^[1]; He, Zihao ^[1]; ^[1]; ^[1]

Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Oxide-metal-based hybrid materials have gained great research interest in recent years owing to their potential for multifunctionality, property coupling, and tunability. Specifically, oxide-metal hybrid materials in a vertically aligned nanocomposite (VAN) form could produce pronounced anisotropic physical properties, e.g., hyperbolic optical properties. Herein, self-assembled HfO₂-Au nanocomposites with ultra-fine vertically aligned Au nanopillars (as fine as 3 nm in diameter) embedded in a HfO₂ matrix were fabricated using a one-step self-assembly process. The film crystallinity and pillar uniformity can be obviously improved by adding an ultra-thin TiN-Au buffer layer during the growth. Here, the HfO₂-Au hybrid VAN films show an obvious plasmonic resonance at 480 nm, which is much lower than the typical plasmonic resonance wavelength of Au nanostructures, and is attributed to the well-aligned ultra-fine Au nanopillars. Coupled with the broad hyperbolic dispersion ranging from 1050 nm to 1800 nm in wavelength, and unique dielectric HfO₂, this nanoscale hybrid plasmonic metamaterial presents strong potential for the design of future integrated optical and electronic switching devices.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: LDRD; National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE; USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: 89233218CNA000001; NA0003525

OSTI ID:: 1881774

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1879898

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-22-28353

Journal Information:: Nanoscale, Journal Name: Nanoscale Journal Issue: 33 Vol. 14; ISSN 2040-3364

Publisher:: Royal Society of ChemistryCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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