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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 1, Issue 3, Pages 657-662Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jz9002923
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan [19049001]
- Hokkaido Innovation through Nanotechnology Support (HINTS)
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [19049001] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Nanoparticles of noble metals exhibit localized surface plasmons (LSP) associated with enhancement of the electromagnetic field due to its localization in nanometric domains at the surface of nanoparticles. Especially, nanogapmetallic structures show strong enhancement of the electromagnetic field at the nanogap position. This can be achieved up to 10(5) times larger than the incident light field. We have explored the possibility to use the localized field for nanogap-assisted surface plasmon nanolithography. For the purpose, monidisperse arrays consisting of pairs of rectangular gold nanoblocks separated by nanogaps were fabricated on glass substrates using electron beam lithography and lift-off techniques. Nanoblock structures were used as photomasks for contact exposure of thinfilms of positive photoresist on glass substrates. Thus, ordered clusters of nanoparticles separated by nanogaps can provide a stable and versatile platform for further development of optical subwavelength nanolithography. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first proof-of-principle demonstration of such a technique.
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