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Fabrication of Surface Plasmon Resonators by Nanoskiving Single-Crystalline Gold Microplates

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: This paper demonstrates the sectioning of chemically synthesized, single-crystalline microplates of gold with an ultramicrotome (nanoskiving) to produce single-crystalline nanowires; these nanowires act as low-loss surface plasmon resonators. This method produces collinearly aligned nanostructures with small, regular changes in dimension with each consecutive cross-section: a single microplate thus can produce a number of "quasi-copies" (delicately modulated variations) of a nanowire. The diamond knife cuts cleanly through microplates 35 microm in diameter and 100 nm thick without bending the resulting nanowire and cuts through the sharp edges of a crystal without deformation to generate nanoscale tips. This paper compares the influence of sharp tips and blunt tips on the resonator modes in these nanowires.

Source: Nano Letters

DOI: 10.1021/nl802252r

Authors: Benjamin J. Wiley, Darren J. Lipomi, Jiming Bao, Federico Capasso, George M. Whitesides

Institution: Harvard University

Language: English

Topic: Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research

Subfield: Biomedical Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Air Force Office of Scientific Research

OpenAlex ID: W1990560751

FWCI: 4.648

Cites: 16

Cited by: 84

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