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Ag/ZnO Hybrid Systems Studied with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy-based Luminescence Spectroscopy

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Pascua,  Leandro
Chemical Physics, Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Society;

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Stavale,  Fernando
Chemical Physics, Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Society;
Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas - CBPF/MCT;

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Nilius,  Niklas
Chemical Physics, Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Society;
Institut für Physik, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg;

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Freund,  Hans-Joachim
Chemical Physics, Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Society;

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Pascua, L., Stavale, F., Nilius, N., & Freund, H.-J. (2016). Ag/ZnO Hybrid Systems Studied with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy-based Luminescence Spectroscopy. Journal of Applied Physics, 119(9): 095310. doi:10.1063/1.4943070.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-002A-1229-3
Abstract
Coupled metal/oxide systems are prepared by depositing and embedding Ag nanoparticles into crystalline ZnO films grown on Au(111) supports. The morphology and optical properties of the compounds are investigated by topographic imaging and luminescence spectroscopy performed in a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM). The luminescence of bare ZnO is governed by the band-recombination and a Zn-vacancy related peak. After Ag deposition, two additional maxima are detected that are assigned to the in-plane and out-of-plane plasmon in Ag nanoparticles and have energies below and slightly above the oxide band-gap, respectively. Upon coating the particles with additional ZnO, the out-of-plane plasmon redshifts and loses intensity, indicating strong coupling to the oxide electronic system, while the in-plane mode broadens but remains detectable. The original situation can be restored by gently heating the sample, which drives the silver back to the surface. However, the optical response of pristine ZnO is not recovered even after silver evaporation at high temperature. Small discrepancies are explained with changes in the ZnO defect landscape, e.g., due to silver incorporation. Our experiments demonstrate how energy-transfer processes can be investigated in well-defined metal/oxide systems by means of STM-based spectroscopic techniques