Authors
Title
New Gold Nanoparticles Adhesion Process Opening the Way of Improved and Highly Sensitive Plasmonics Technologies (article)
In
Plasmonics
Volume
8
Pages
411–415
Year
2013
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Abstract
Gold nanostructures have very suitable physical properties for plasmonic applications but do not stick on glass substrates. One usually uses a chromium adhesion layer that gives good mechanical adhesion but quench the plasmon. We developed a new adhesion process that permits a covalent bonding between gold and glass thanks to an MPTMS molecular layer throughout nanolithography pro- cess. We demonstrate that this new adhesion layer allows an improvement of the optical properties of the gold nanopar- ticles as well as an essential improvement of their surface- enhanced Raman scattering performances.
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