Making gold nanostructures using self-assembled monolayers and a scanning tunneling microscope

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 101, Issue 45, 1997, Pages 9263-9269

  Delamarche, E ^a   Hoole, A C F ^b   Michel, B ^a   Wilkes, S ^c   Despont, M ^a   Weiland, M E ^b   Biebuyck, H ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; GOLD; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

LOW ENERGY ELECTRON LITHOGRAPHY; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS;

MONOLAYERS;

EID: 0031556576     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp9711151     Document Type: Article

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