Palladium chloride as seeding and surfactant layer to mediate the formation of top metal films on self-assembled monolayers

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 12980-12988

  Chesneau, Frederick ^a,b   Zharnikov, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b BASF SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; GOLD; GOLD DEPOSITS; METALLIC FILMS; METALLIZING; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

CHLORINE ATOM; DEPOSITED METAL; NUCLEATION CENTER; PALLADIUM CHLORIDE; SEEDING LAYERS; SPINTRONIC DEVICE; SURFACTANT LAYERS; TEST SYSTEMS;

PALLADIUM;

EID: 84903185418     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp505034h     Document Type: Article

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