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American Chemical Society, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 3(111), p. 1061-1064, 2006

DOI: 10.1021/jp0668908

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Two-Dimensional Self-Organization of CdS Ultra Thin Films by Confined Electrochemical Atomic Layer Epitaxy Growth

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Abstract

We present a method that uses patterned self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of alkanethiolates on silver as templates to fabricate ordered two-dimensional arrays of solid US nanoclusters. The US is grown by electrochemical atomic layer epitaxy inside sub-micrometric stripes of hexadecanthiol SAM fabricated by microcontact printing. US ultrathin films grow and self-organize into an ordered pattern of nanoclusters. This pattern exhibits both lithographically imposed ordered structures and a self-affine structure along the direction perpendicular to the stripes. On the contrary, along the direction parallel to the stripes no spatial correlation among the clusters has ever been observed.