Subwavelength direct laser patterning of conductive gold nanostructures by simultaneous photopolymerization and photoreduction

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1947-1957

  Shukla, Shobha ^a,c   Vidal, Xavier ^c   Furlani, Edward P ^c   Swihart, Mark T ^a,c   Kim, Kyoung Tae ^a   Yoon, Yong Kyu ^a   Urbas, Augustine ^d   Prasad, Paras N ^a,b,c  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

gold nanostructures; metamaterials; nanocomposites; nanofabrication; two photon lithography

Indexed keywords

BULK METALS; FEATURE SIZES; FEMTOSECOND PULSED LASER; FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURE; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; GOLD NANOSTRUCTURES; GOLD PRECURSOR; HIGH CONDUCTIVITY; HIGH DENSITY; LASER ENERGIES; LASER INTENSITIES; LASER PATTERNING; NANOFABRICATION; NEGATIVE PHOTORESISTS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PHOTO-REDUCTION; PLASMONIC; POLYMERIC MATRICES; SIMULTANEOUS REDUCTION; STRUCTURAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUBWAVELENGTH RESOLUTION; TWO PHOTON; TWO-PHOTON LITHOGRAPHY;

GOLD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METAMATERIALS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONS; PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION; PHOTORESISTS; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

PULSED LASERS;

GOLD; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LASER; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; GOLD; LASERS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 79952949300     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn103015g     Document Type: Article

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