This book presents an overview of nanostructure determination and ways to find relationships to the electronic and optical properties. The methods described can be applied to a large number of other granular metal-insulator systems and used as a guideline for characterisation and modelling. In addition, the book describes the manufacture of artificially structured nanomaterials using laser or electron-beam irradiation.

This book gives the first detailed description of the relationship between nanostructure of insulating films with embedded nanoparticles and the resulting optical and electronic properties. Various methods for the determination of the nanostructure are described in detail.

Contains a large number of high quality electron microscopy micrographs to demonstrate the nanostructure of embedded particles Extensive in situ investigations of nanostructural changes of metal nanoparticles are described for the first time.- Guideline for the characterization and modelling of granular metal-insulator systems Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Film Deposition.- 3. Nanostructure.- 4. Nanostructural Changes.- 5. Electronic Properties.- 6. Nanostructure and Optical Properties.- References.