Preparation of gold tips suitable for tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and light emission by electrochemical etching

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 837-841

  Ren, Bin ^a   Picardi, Gennaro ^b   Pettinger, Bruno ^b  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETCHING; ETHANOL; GOLD; HELIUM NEON LASERS; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT EMISSION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE;

BENIGN ETCHING METHOD; ELECTROCHEMICAL ETCHING; GOLD OXIDES; MALACHITE GREEN ISOTHIOCYANATE; TIP-ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

EID: 2042502377     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1688442     Document Type: Article

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