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Optical Properties of Metal, Semiconductor and Ceramic Nanostructures Grown by Liquid Phase-Pulsed Laser Ablation

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Low-dimensional nanomaterials with enhanced size effect properties such as surface plasmon resonance and quantum confinements offer an unprecedented physical phenomenon, reducing devices down to atomic scale. In the last few decades, research interest in nanostructured materials has aroused due to their unusual electronic, optical, magnetic and chemical properties which are different from their bulk counterpart. In recent years, great efforts have been made on the synthesis of colloidal nanoparticles because of their promising application in various fields such as drug delivery, imaging and diagnostics. In this chapter, we discuss the synthesis of metal, semiconductor and ceramic nanoparticles by liquid phase-pulsed laser ablation (LP-PLA) technique. The optical properties of gold and silver nanoparticles grown by LP-PLA method were discussed in detail in this chapter. This chapter also discusses the growth of surfactant-free highly luminescent, transparent, chemically pure and biocompatible zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles by LP-PLA. The dependence of time of ablation, laser fluence, oxygen and nitrogen bubbling during ablation on the properties of the ZnO nanoparticles was investigated. The growth of ZnO nanoparticles by varying the pH of the media gives some inference on the stability of this colloidal solution and the formation of passivation layer on the surface of these particles. The luminescent properties of the europium-doped hydroxyapatite grown by LP-PLA technique were also discussed in this chapter. These luminescent nanoparticles find immense applications in biomedical imaging and cancer detections.

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Aneesh, P.M., Jayaraj, M.K. (2020). Optical Properties of Metal, Semiconductor and Ceramic Nanostructures Grown by Liquid Phase-Pulsed Laser Ablation. In: Jayaraj, M. (eds) Nanostructured Metal Oxides and Devices. Materials Horizons: From Nature to Nanomaterials. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3314-3_3

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