Unusual dealloying effect in gold/copper alloy thin films: The role of defects and column boundaries in the formation of nanoporous gold

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2310-2321

  El Mel, Abdel Aziz ^a   Boukli Hacene, Farah ^a   Molina Luna, Leopoldo ^b   Bouts, Nicolas ^a   Chauvin, Adrien ^a   Thiry, Damien ^a   Gautron, Eric ^a   Gautier, Nicolas ^a   Tessier, Pierre Yves ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES MATÉRIAUX JEAN ROUXEL   (France)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

copper; cosputtering; dealloying; nanoporous gold; thin films

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC ETCHING; BINARY ALLOYS; COPPER; COPPER ALLOYS; COPPER CORROSION; DEALLOYING; MORPHOLOGY; NITRIC ACID; THIN FILMS;

ALLOY THIN FILMS; COLUMN BOUNDARIES; COSPUTTERING; FUNDAMENTAL MECHANISMS; GOLD BASED ALLOYS; MULTI-LAYERED STRUCTURE; NANOPOROUS GOLD; SPONGELIKE STRUCTURE;

GOLD ALLOYS;

EID: 84922439165     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5065816     Document Type: Article

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