title: Plasmonic molecules via glass annealing in hydrogen.
abstract: Growth of self-assembled metal nanoislands on the surface of silver ion-exchanged glasses via their thermal processing in hydrogen followed by out-diffusion of neutral silver is studied. The combination of thermal poling of the ion-exchanged glass with structured electrode and silver out-diffusion was used for simple formation of separated groups of several metal nanoislands presenting plasmonic molecules. The kinetics of nanoisland formation and temporal evolution of their size distribution on the surface of poled and unpoled glass are modeled.
  78.67.Sc (nanoaggregates; nanocomposites); 81.16.Dn (self-assembly); 68.35.bj (surface structure of glasses); 64.60.Qb (Nucleation); 81.16.Nd (micro- and nanolithography).
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physics, Nanotechnology and Telecommunications, St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, 29 Polytechnicheskaya, St. Petersburg 195251, Russia ; Department of Physics and Technology of Nanostructures, St. Petersburg Academic University, 8/3 Khlopina, St. Petersburg 194021, Russia.
authors.forename: Alexey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Redkov
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physics, Nanotechnology and Telecommunications, St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, 29 Polytechnicheskaya, St. Petersburg 195251, Russia ; Institute of Photonics, University of Eastern Finland, Yliopistokatu 7, P.O. Box 111, Joensuu 80101, Finland.
authors.forename: Semen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chervinskii
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physics, Nanotechnology and Telecommunications, St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, 29 Polytechnicheskaya, St. Petersburg 195251, Russia ; Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of RAS, 26 Polytechnicheskaya, St. Petersburg 194021, Russia.
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Baklanov
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physics, Nanotechnology and Telecommunications, St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, 29 Polytechnicheskaya, St. Petersburg 195251, Russia ; Department of Physics and Technology of Nanostructures, St. Petersburg Academic University, 8/3 Khlopina, St. Petersburg 194021, Russia.
authors.forename: Igor
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Reduto
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physics, Nanotechnology and Telecommunications, St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, 29 Polytechnicheskaya, St. Petersburg 195251, Russia.
authors.forename: Valentina
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Zhurikhina
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physics, Nanotechnology and Telecommunications, St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, 29 Polytechnicheskaya, St. Petersburg 195251, Russia ; Department of Physics and Technology of Nanostructures, St. Petersburg Academic University, 8/3 Khlopina, St. Petersburg 194021, Russia.
authors.forename: Andrey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lipovskii
keywords: Film; Nanoisland; Nanoparticle; Nanostructuring; Plasmonic molecule; Self-assembly