Constant current etching of gold tips suitable for tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 83, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Xu, Gengzhao ^a   Liu, Zhenghui ^a   Xu, Ke ^a   Zhang, Yi ^a   Zhong, Haijian ^a   Fan, Yingmin ^a   Huang, Zengli ^a  

^a SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF NANO TECH AND NANO BIONICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT CURRENT; ELECTROCHEMICAL ETCH; ETCHING PROCESS; GOLD WIRE; HIGH QUALITY; RAMAN MAPPING; REFERENCE VOLTAGES; SINGLE-STEP; SMOOTH SURFACE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIP-ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

CARBON NANOTUBES; GOLD; GRAPHENE;

ELECTROCHEMICAL ETCHING;

EID: 84868384148     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4763573     Document Type: Conference Paper

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