@article {Gaspar2013,
	title = {Influence of the layer thickness in plasmonic gold nanoparticles produced by thermal evaporation},
	journal = {Scientific Reports},
	volume = {3},
	year = {2013},
	note = {<p>cited By 23</p>
},
	abstract = {<p>Metallic nanoparticles (NPs) have received recently considerable interest of photonic and photovoltaic communities. In this work, we report the optoelectronic properties of gold NPs (Au-NPs) obtained by depositing very thin gold layers on glass substrates through thermal evaporation electron-beam assisted process. The effect of mass thickness of the layer was evaluated. The polycrystalline Au-NPs, with grain sizes of 14 and 19 nm tend to be elongated in one direction as the mass thickness increase. A 2 nm layer deposited at 250 C led to the formation of Au-NPs with 10-20 nm average size, obtained by SEM images, while for a 5 nm layer the wide size elongates from 25 to 150 nm with a mean at 75 nm. In the near infrared region was observed an absorption enhancement of amorphous silicon films deposited onto the Au-NPs layers with a corresponding increase in the PL peak for the same wavelength region.</p>
},
	doi = {10.1038/srep01469},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84876533482\&partnerID=40\&md5=38d58ebe9cddcbd08fe83d79ea94226f},
	author = {Gaspar, D.a , Pimentel, A.C.a , Mateus, T.a , Leit{\~a}o, J.P.b , Soares, J.b , Falc{\~a}o, B.P.b , Ara{\'u}jo, A.a , Vicente, A.a , Filonov}
}
