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O: Fachverband Oberflächenphysik
O 36: Poster Session II (Organic films and electronics, photoorganics; Nanostructures; Plasmonics and nanooptics, Surface chemical reactions and heterogeneous catalysis, Surface dynamics )
O 36.79: Poster
Tuesday, March 12, 2013, 18:15–21:45, Poster B2
UV-VIS absorption and XANES of Ag clusters in matrices — •Stefanie Duffe1, David Engemann1, Sabrina Hoffmann1, Christian Sternemann1, Ralph Wagner2, Kristina Kvashnina3, Pieter Glatzel3, and Heinz Hövel1 — 1TU Dortmund, Fakultät Physik / DELTA, Dortmund, Germany — 2BU Wuppertal, Fachgruppe Physik-Materialwissenschaften, Wuppertal, Germany — 3ESRF, Grenoble, France
We produce Ag clusters by supersonic nozzle expansion using THECLA, a THErmal CLuster Apparatus [1,2] which was designed to enable optical spectroscopy of clusters in a free jet and deposited on silica glass [2] or in matrices. The optical properties and the UV-VIS absorption band of Ag clusters alter significantly with size, shape, interparticle spacing and the properties of the local environment. Embedding the clusters into polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) [3], aerogel or ionic liquids enables the investigation of a much higher amount of separated clusters which is otherwise limited by coalescence and electromagnetic coupling. We investigate the plasmon resonance of Ag clusters in PDMS or aerogel by optical spectroscopy [4]. XANES measurements at the Ag L1,2,3-edges [5] were carried out at the synchrotron radiation sources DELTA and ESRF and were compared to FEFF calculations.
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