a Key Laboratory for Magnetism and Magnetic Materials of the Ministry of Education, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China; b Joule Physics Laboratory, Research Institute for Magnetic Materials, School of Sciences, the University of Salford, Manchester, M5 4WT, UK
Abstract Arrays of Pt nanowires, fabricated by electrodepositing Pt metal into nanoporous anodic aluminium oxide (AAO) templates, exhibit a preferable optical absorption band in the ultraviolet-visible (UV-VIS) spectra and present a blueshift as the wire aspect ratio increases or its radius decreases. This type of optical property of Pt nanowire/porous alumina composites has been theoretically explored using Maxwell－Garnett (MG) effective medium theory. The MG theory, however, is only applicable to nanowires with an infinitesimally small radius relative to the wavelength of an incident light. The nanowire radius is controlled by the pore radius of the host alumina, which depends on anodizing conditions such as the selected electrolyte, anodizing time, temperature and voltage. The nanowire aspect ratios depend on the amount of Pt deposited into the nanopores of AAO films. The optical absorption properties of the arrays of Pt nanowires with diameters of 24, 55 and 90 nm have been investigated by the UV-VIS spectra, which show that the extinction maximum ($\lambda$max) shifts to shorter wavelength side as the wire aspect ratio increases or its radius decreases. The results are qualitatively consistent with those calculated based on the MG theory.
Received: 17 April 2002
Revised: 12 August 2002
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Fund: Project supported by the Gansu Natural Science Foundation, the Key Teacher Foundation, and the Research Foundation for Scholars from Abroad, the latter two being from the Ministry of Education, China.
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Gao Tie-Ren (高铁仁), Chen Zi-Yu (陈子瑜), Peng Yong (彭勇), Li Fa-Shen (李发伸) Fabrication and optical properties of platinum nanowire arrays on anodic aluminium oxide templates 2002 Chinese Physics 11 1307
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