Optical visualization of ultrathin mica flakes on semitransparent gold substrates

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-5

  Dols Perez, Aurora ^a,b   Sisquella, Xavier ^c,d   Fumagalli, Laura ^a,b   Gomila, Gabriel ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR BIOENGINEERING OF CATALONIA IBEC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c Nanotechnology Platform   (Spain)

^d WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conductive AFM; Metallic substrate; Optical microscopy; Ultrathin layers

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; GOLD; MICA; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; VISUALIZATION;

CONDUCTIVE AFM; GOLD SUBSTRATES; METALLIC SUBSTRATE; MICA FLAKES; OPTICAL IMAGE; OPTICAL REFLECTION; OPTICAL VISUALIZATION; ULTRATHIN LAYERS;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 84881225239     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-8-305     Document Type: Article

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