V. S. Brunov, O. A. Podsvirov, M. A. Prosnikov, A. I. Sidorov, “Peculiarities of dissolution of a thin gold film in silicate glass under electron irradiation”, Pisma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2016, Volume 42, Issue 4,Pages <nobr>90

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Peculiarities of dissolution of a thin gold film in silicate glass under electron irradiation

V. S. Brunov^a, O. A. Podsvirov^b, M. A. Prosnikov^c, A. I. Sidorov^ad

^a St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics
^b Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
^c Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg
^d Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI"

Abstract: It is experimentally established that irradiation of a silicate glass coated with a thin gold film by 35-keV electrons to a dose of 50–65 mC/cm$^2$ leads to partial dissolution of the gold film in glass. Subsequent heat treatment above the glass transition temperature results in the formation of a buried gold layer and gold nanoparticles beneath the glass surface. The observed phenomenon is related to the formation of a negatively charged region under the irradiated glass surface, which leads to field-induced migration of gold ions into the volume of glass.

Keywords: Glass Surface, Technical Physic Letter, Silicate Glass, Gold Film, Electron Irradiation.

Received: 08.04.2015