Electrochemical etching of gold within nanoshaved self-assembled monolayers

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 5421-5429

  Shao, Jingru ^a   Josephs, Eric A ^b   Lee, Cheetar ^a   Lopez, Adriana ^a   Ye, Tao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

alkanethiol self assembled monolayers; atomic force microscopy; electrochemical etching; metal nanostructures; scanning probe lithography; thiourea

Indexed keywords

ALKANETHIOL SELF-ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; LATERAL DIRECTIONS; METAL NANOSTRUCTURE; NANOMETER RESOLUTIONS; SCANNING PROBE LITHOGRAPHY; SINGLE CRYSTALLINE SUBSTRATES; SITU ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ETCHING; NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMONS; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; THIOUREAS;

GOLD;

EID: 84879635994     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4014005     Document Type: Article

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