Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5442991 | Optical Materials | 2017 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
To obtain important information for fabricating atomic-scale Au thin films that are used for biosensors, we have observed the morphology of Au particles adsorbed on a Si(111)-7Â Ã 7 surface, which is supposed to be the initial stage of Au atomistic thin film formation. Au particles were adsorbed on the clean Si surface using a PLD method, and the adsorbed particles were observed using a scanning tunneling microscope. As the number of laser shots was increased in the PLD method, the size of the adsorbed particle became larger. The larger particles seemed to form clusters, which are aggregations of particles in which each particle is distinguished, so we call this type of cluster a film-shaped cluster. In this work, we have mainly analyzed this type of cluster. As a result the film-shaped clusters were found to have a structure of nearly monoatomic layers. The particles in the clusters were gathered closely in roughly a 3-fold structure with an inter particle distance of 0.864Â nm. We propose a model for the cluster structure by modifying Au(111) face so that each observed particle consists of three Au atoms.
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Authors
Atsushi Yokotani, Akihiro Kameyama, Kohei Nakayoshi, Yuta Matsunaga,