The aim of the successfully implemented practice was to select analytical and numerical simulation methods for describing the optical properties of thin nanocomposite films with embedded metal nanoparticles targeting for the explanation of their experimental results.
Project funding:
Project is funded by EU Structural Funds according to the 2014–2020 Operational Programme for the European Union Funds’ Investments priority “Development of scientific competence of researchers, other researchers, students through practical scientific activities” under Measure No. 09.3.3-LMT-K-712.
Project results:
During the practice, the student mastered the deposition technologies of nanocomposite coatings and the analytical methods used for their characterization. The main attention was focus on applications of theoretical methods for calculating the optical properties of nanocomposite films using analytical expressions estimating the absorption and scattering of metal nanoparticles. The results of these studies took into account the experimentally evaluated properties of the coatings including the thickness of the films, silver content, nanoparticle size distribution, and filing fraction. Films demonstrating strong absorption in the visible range were deposited. The main results were presented at the conference organized by RCL.
Period of project implementation: 2020-11-03 - 2021-04-30
Project coordinator: Kaunas University of Technology
