Creation and Characterization of Gold Coated Slides with a Home Built Deposition Chamber
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Author(s)
Rieders, Nate
Date Issued
April 24, 2009
Abstract
An apparatus for the creation of gold slides was designed. Gold wire is placed in an evacuated chamber along with an array of glass slides. The gold wire is heated and evaporated onto the glass slides, leaving a thin deposition layer. The gold slides are created for the study of hydrophobic materials using surface plasmon resonance (SPR). The use of SPR as the experimental method requires the thickness of the gold layer to be precisely determined. Thus, the thickness of the gold slides are
characterized using scanning tunneling microscopy. Further work must be done before the device is
constructed and ready for deposition.
First Reader(s)
Torigoe, Adele
Other Reader(s)
Lombardi, James C., Jr. (Jamie)
Department
Physics
Type of Publication
Senior Project Paper
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2008.09 Rieders Comp Final Copy.pdf
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Senior Project
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8.67 MB
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