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Investigation of Nanoelectrodes by Transmission Electron Microscopy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2011

M. S. Kabir ,
S. H. Magnus Persson ,
Yimin Yao ,
Jean Phillippe Bourgoin  and
Serge Palacin
M. S. Kabir
Affiliation:
Dept. of Micro Electronics and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
S. H. Magnus Persson
Affiliation:
Dept. of Micro Electronics and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Yimin Yao
Affiliation:
Dept. of Microscopy and Microanalysis, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Jean Phillippe Bourgoin
Affiliation:
Service de Chimie Mole culaire, CEA Saclay, Centre d'Etudes de Saclay Bat 125, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France
Serge Palacin
Affiliation:
Service de Chimie Mole culaire, CEA Saclay, Centre d'Etudes de Saclay Bat 125, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France
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Abstract

Electrodes for making connections to single molecules and clusters must have separations smaller than 10 nm. They are therefore difficult or impossible to image with atomic force microscopes (AFM) or Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM). We have fabricated nanoelelectrodes by different methods to contacts nanoclusters and conjugated molecules and investigated their properties in transmission electron microscope (TEM) and their electrical characteristics at room temperature and at 4.2K. The electrodes are made on SiN4 membranes, which is transparent to high energy electrons and which make it possible to image features of a few nanometers in TEM.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 676: Symposium Y – Synthesis, Functional Properties and Applications of Nanostructures , 2001 , Y6.9
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2001

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