Plasmon assisted photoinduced surface changes in amorphous chalcogenide layer

Abstract The influence of the localized surface plasmon fields on the light stimulated transformations in amorphous chalcogenide films was investigated. It was established that both in the gold nanoparticle array-chalcogenide film and in the gold film with nanohole array-chalcogenide film composites the plasmon fields, induced during the laser illumination of the structures, increase the efficiency of structural transformations, the related photo-darkening or bleaching, as well as of the volume change, surface deformations. The results, obtained for structures with As 20 Se 80 amorphous layer, can be applied for other selected chalcogenide layers and fabrication of locally driven information recording media.