Altering the dewetting characteristics of ultrathin gold and silver films using a sacrificial antimony layer

Nanotechnology

Volumn 23, Issue 49, 2012, Pages

  Farzinpour, P ^a   Sundar, A ^a   Gilroy, K D ^a   Eskin, Z E ^a   Hughes, R A ^a   Neretina, S ^a  

^a Temple University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREAL DENSITIES; ASSEMBLY PROCESS; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; DE-WETTING; DEPOSITED METAL; FOUR-ORDER; GOLD AND SILVER; GOLD LAYER; INTER-PARTICLE SPACING; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; METAL NANOSTRUCTURE; NANOPARTICLE SIZES; NANOSTRUCTURE SIZE; SELF ASSEMBLY PROCESS; ULTRA-THIN;

GOLD; METALLIC FILMS; NANOPARTICLES; SELF ASSEMBLY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

ASSEMBLY;

ANTIMONY; GOLD; NANOMATERIAL; SILVER;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WETTABILITY;

ADSORPTION; ANTIMONY; GOLD; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SILVER; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WETTABILITY;

EID: 84869992863     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/23/49/495604     Document Type: Article

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