Controlled fabrication of metallic electrodes with atomic separation

We report a technique for fabricating metallic electrodes on insulating substrates with separations on the 1 nm scale. The fabrication technique, which combines lithographic and electrochemical methods, provides atomic resolution without requiring sophisticated instrumentation. The process is simple, controllable, reversible, and robust, allowing rapid fabrication of electrode pairs with high yield. We expect the method to prove useful in interfacing molecular-scale structures to macroscopic probes and electronic devices.

• Publication year

  1998

• Venue

  Applied Physics Letters

• Publication date

  1998-11-18

• Fields of study

  Materials Science, Physics, Engineering

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  DOI 10.1063/1.123765arXiv cond-mat/9811265
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