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

Nano Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 841-844

  Speets, Emiel A ^a   Ravoo, Bart Jan ^a   Roesthuis, Frank J G ^a   Vroegindeweij, Frank ^a   Blank, Dave H A ^a   Reinhoudt, David N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; STEARIC ACID DERIVATIVE; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; LASER MICROSCOPY; LOW TEMPERATURE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 2642525421     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl049774u     Document Type: Article

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