Citation:
Steve Dunn, Divya Tiwari, Paul M. Jones and Diego E. Gallardo, Insights into the relationship between inherent materials properties of PZT and photochemistry for the development of nanostructured silver, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 17(42) 2007, 4460–4463.
Abstract:
Recently there has been great interest in using patterned ferroelectric
materials for the photochemical growth of metal nanostructures. Variations in
surface and sub-surface structure influence the photochemical processes. Here we
show that crystallography, and hence remnant polarization, of the ferroelectric
affects photo-deposition. The ratio of metal growth on c– and c+ domains varies
from 1 : 2 for [100] to 1 : 100 for [111]. This is shown to be dependent on the
variations in the band structur
