Aligned growth of gold nanorods in PMMA channels: Parallel preparation of nanogaps

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 3861-3867

  Jain, Titoo ^a   Lara Avila, Samuel ^b   Kervennic, Yann Vai ^b   Moth Poulsen, Kasper ^b   Nørgaard, Kasper ^a   Kubatkin, Sergey ^b   Bjørnholm, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Gold nanorods; Junctions; Nanoelectrodes; Nanogaps; Nanoparticles; Self assembly; Single molecule electronics

Indexed keywords

ALIGNED GROWTH; ALIGNMENT CONTROL; DEVICE FABRICATIONS; GOLD NANOROD; IN-SITU; IN-SITU GROWTH; METALLIC ELECTRODES; NANO CHANNELS; NANO-ELECTRODES; NANO-GAP; NANOGAPS; POSITIONAL CONTROL; SEED MEDIATED; SINGLE CHIPS; SINGLE-MOLECULE ELECTRONICS; SPHERICAL NANOPARTICLES; SYNTHETIC APPROACH;

ALIGNMENT; ESTERS; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; SELF ASSEMBLY; WAVEGUIDE JUNCTIONS;

NANORODS;

EID: 84864661440     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn204986y     Document Type: Article

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