{"id":246713,"date":"2026-11-06T02:37:39","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T08:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/engineered-optical-layers-reshape-how-ultrathin-gold-films-break-apart-under-laser-light"},"modified":"2026-11-06T02:37:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T08:37:39","slug":"engineered-optical-layers-reshape-how-ultrathin-gold-films-break-apart-under-laser-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/engineered-optical-layers-reshape-how-ultrathin-gold-films-break-apart-under-laser-light","title":{"rendered":"Engineered optical layers reshape how ultrathin gold films break apart under laser light"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dewetting of thin films is a phenomenon in which heat or laser irradiation destabilizes a continuous film, causing it to retract into nanoscale island-like structures. Compared to thermal dewetting, laser-induced dewetting offers greater precision, speed and flexibility and is a promising approach for patterning metallic thin films.<\/p>\n<p>In applications such as plasmonic color laser printing and fabrication of substrate-engraved metasurfaces, controlling the size and distribution of the resulting nanostructures remains a major challenge. In others, including low-emissivity window coatings and nanoscale plasmonic devices, dewetting is undesirable because it shortens coating lifetime and degrades device performance.<\/p>\n<p>A new study <a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/11407934\/\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the <i>IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics<\/i>, explores a unique approach to control laser-induced dewetting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dewetting of thin films is a phenomenon in which heat or laser irradiation destabilizes a continuous film, causing it to retract into nanoscale island-like structures. Compared to thermal dewetting, laser-induced dewetting offers greater precision, speed and flexibility and is a promising approach for patterning metallic thin films. In applications such as plasmonic color laser printing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}