Abstract
Gold clusters (diam. = 1.0 ±.5 nm) are prepared in a gas aggregation source (MECS), expanded into a vacuum chamber to form a neutral cluster beam, and deposited at low impact velocity on room temperature substrates. When several monolayers of these clusters are deposited on clean substrates (nitrocellulose, glass, mica, NaCl), they form smooth ultra-thin films. These cluster-assembled films appear to be similar in quality to those produced by the Takagi-Yamada ion cluster beam process. They exhibit finite electrical conductivity at thicknesses much smaller than is the case with atomically evaporated films. They are extremely uniform and smooth with a surface height that typically varies less than 1 nm across the entire film.
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Ramachandra, A., Vaziri, M. & Andres, R.P. Production of Ultra-Thin Metal Films Using Neutral Cluster Beams. MRS Online Proceedings Library 206, 397–401 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-206-397
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