Use of electroless silver as the substrate in microcontact printing of alkanethiols and its application in microfabrication

Langmuir

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 363-371

  Xia, Younan ^a   Venkateswaran, N ^b   Qin, Dong ^a   Tien, Joe ^a   Whitesides, George M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Peacock Laboratories Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTOMERS; ELECTROLESS PLATING; ETCHING; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; IRON COMPOUNDS; MONOLAYERS; MORPHOLOGY; PRINTING; SILVER PLATING; SUBSTRATES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ELASTOMERIC STAMPS; HEXANEDECANETHIOLATE; MICROCONTACT PRINTING; MICROPATTERNING; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS (SAM);

METALLIC FILMS;

EID: 0031702714     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la9707080     Document Type: Article

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