High quality nano-patterned thin films of the coordination compound {Fe(pyrazine)[Pt(CN)4]} deposited layer-by-layer

Carlos Bartual-Murgui; Lionel Salmon; Amal Akou; Christophe Thibault; Gábor Molnár; Tarik Mahfoud; Zouheir Sekkat; José Antonio Real; Azzedine Bousseksou

doi:10.1039/C1NJ20212J

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High quality nano-patterned thin films of the coordination compound {Fe(pyrazine)[Pt(CN)₄]} deposited layer-by-layer†‡

Carlos Bartual-Murgui,^a Lionel Salmon,^a Amal Akou,^a Christophe Thibault,^b Gábor Molnár,^a Tarik Mahfoud,^ac Zouheir Sekkat,^cd José Antonio Real^e and Azzedine Bousseksou*^a

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^a LCC, CNRS & Université de Toulouse (UPS, INP), 205 route de Narbonne, F-31077 Toulouse, France
E-mail: azzedine.bousseksou@lcc-toulouse.fr

^b LAAS, CNRS & Université de Toulouse (UPS, INSA, ISAE), 7 avenue du Colonel Roche, F-31077 Toulouse, France

^c Optics & Photonics Center (OPC), Moroccan Foundation for Science, Innovation and Research (MAScIR), Technopolis Rabatshore, Morocco

^d Hassan II Academy of Science and Technology, Rabat, Morocco

^e Instituto de Ciencia Molecular (ICMol), Universidad de Valencia, C/Catedrático José Beltrán Martínez, 2, 46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain

Abstract

An optimised procedure was developed for the layer-by-layer deposition of the Hofmann clathrate-like coordination compound {Fe(pyrazine)[Pt(CN)₄]} either as continuous or as nano-patterned thin films. Characterization of the thickness and topography of the thin films by atomic force microscopy (AFM) and by surface plasmon resonance (SPR) spectroscopy, which also yields the layer's refractive index and losses, are reported. We found that the films are of good optical quality and the results of both AFM and SPR experiments are in good agreement with the theoretical predictions of the films thicknesses.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C1NJ20212J
Article type: Paper
Submitted: 07 Mar 2011
Accepted: 15 Apr 2011
First published: 26 May 2011

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New J. Chem., 2011,35, 2089-2094

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High quality nano-patterned thin films of the coordination compound {Fe(pyrazine)[Pt(CN)₄]} deposited layer-by-layer

C. Bartual-Murgui, L. Salmon, A. Akou, C. Thibault, G. Molnár, T. Mahfoud, Z. Sekkat, J. A. Real and A. Bousseksou, New J. Chem., 2011, 35, 2089 DOI: 10.1039/C1NJ20212J

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