Plasmon-induced Ag decorated CeO nanorod array for photodetector application.

In this work, glancing angle deposition (GLAD) has been used to grow Ag decorated CeO nanorod (NR) array on n-type Si substrate. The length of the NRs obtained was ∼235 nm and the size of the Ag NPs varied from 13 to 41 nm. The polycrystalline and crystalline nature of CeO and Ag respectively was revealed via selected area electron diffraction (SAED) analysis as well as x-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern.