Gold nanolayer and nanocluster coatings induced by heat treatment and evaporation technique

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-8

  Schaub, Anna ^a   Slepička, Petr ^a   Kašpárková, Irena ^a   Malinský, Petr ^b,c   MacKová, Anna ^b,c   Švorčík, Václav ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^c J E PURKINJE UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Glass substrate; Gold coating; Nanostructure; Surface properties; Thermal annealing

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; EVAPORATION; GLASS; GOLD DEPOSITS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SHEET RESISTANCE; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE RESISTANCE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY;

ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; EVAPORATION PROCESS; GLASS SUBSTRATES; GOLD NANOSTRUCTURES; SURFACE CHARACTERIZATION; THERMAL-ANNEALING; UV-VIS SPECTROSCOPY; VAN DER PAUW METHOD;

GOLD COATINGS;

EID: 84878749760     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-8-249     Document Type: Article

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