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The optical and electrical properties and resistance switching of granular films of silver on sapphire

Gladskikh, I.A., Leonov, N.B., Przhibelskiy, S.G., Vartanyan, T.A.

Publication in Journal of Optical Technology

For Russian citation (Opticheskii Zhurnal):

Гладских И.А., Леонов Н.Б., Пржибельский С.Г., Вартанян Т.А. Оптические и электрические свойства и переключение сопротивления гранулированных пленок серебра на сапфире // Оптический журнал. 2014. Т. 81. № 5. С. 68–74.

Gladskikh I.A., Leonov N.B., Przhibelskiy S.G., Vartanyan T.A. The optical and electrical properties and resistance switching of granular films of silver on sapphire [in Russian] // Opticheskii Zhurnal. 2014. V. 81. № 5. P. 68–74.

For citation (Journal of Optical Technology):

I. A. Gladskikh, N. B. Leonov, S. G. Przhibel’skiĭ, and T. A. Vartanyan, "The optical and electrical properties and resistance switching of granular films of silver on sapphire," Journal of Optical Technology. 81(5), 280-284 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1364/JOT.81.000280

Abstract:

The optical and electrical properties of granular silver films on the surface of sapphire substrates have been experimentally investigated, and measurements have been made during deposition and thermal annealing. The extinction spectra of the granular silver films were measured during deposition. The dependences of the resistance of the films on the final thickness and deposition rate have been established. It is found that the resistance of the films deposited at room temperature continues to change after deposition has ceased, with the character of these changes depending on the rate with which the film was deposited: The resistance increases in films deposited slowly and falls off in those deposited quickly. As a result of annealing at temperatures of the order of 100°C, films deposited at a high rate convert to a high-resistance state, in which they possess distinctive electrical properties: Under a voltage of more than 5 V, their resistance sharply falls off by 5–7 orders of magnitude.

Keywords:

silver nanoparticles, localized plasmons, percolation threshold, resistance switching

Acknowledgements:

This work was carried out as part of Topic 411513, financed from the centralized funds of the National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics, and Optics, and with the state financial support of the leading universities of the Russian Federation (Subsidy 074-U01). The authors are grateful to V. A. Polishchuk for carrying out the studies on a scanning electron microscope.

OCIS codes: 310.1860, 310.6860

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