Fabrication of arrays of gold islands on self-assembled monolayers using pulsed laser deposition through nanosieves

Speets, Emiel A. and Ravoo, Bart Jan and Roesthuis, Frank J.G. and Vroegindeweij, Frank and Blank, Dave H.A. and Reinhoudt, David N. (2004) Fabrication of arrays of gold islands on self-assembled monolayers using pulsed laser deposition through nanosieves. Nano Letters, 4 (5). pp. 841-844. ISSN 1530-6984

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Abstract:	Sandwich structures of gold-self-assembled monolayer-gold were prepared by deposition of gold on alkylthiolate self-assembled monolayers on polycrystalline gold, using pulsed laser deposition (PLD) through a nanosieve. The arrays of sandwiches, around 600 nm in diameter, approximately 10 nm high, and spaced 1.6 ím apart, were analyzed using tapping mode atomic force microscopy. Electrochemical copper deposition experiments showed that of the islands deposited on octadecanethiolate monolayers about 15% were electrically insulated from the bottom gold electrode. This means that PLD is a suitable technique for the fabrication of metal-SAM-metal sandwich structures.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2004 American Chemical Society
Faculty:	Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Group:	Inorganic Materials Science (IMS)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/49502
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl049774u
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