Until now the positioning of nanoparticles onto surfaces required complex techniques. Recently a team of scientists around the NIM physicists Dr. Andrey Lutich and Prof. Jochen Feldmann developed a simple but highly precise procedure: The scientists use light pressure produced by a laser to shoot single gold nanoparticles with a diameter of 80 nanometer onto a surface. By that they can reach a precision of about 50 nanometer.

Publication:
„Laser Printing Single Gold Nanoparticles“
Alexander Urban, Andrey Lutich, Fenando Stefani, Jochen Feldmann
Nanoletters, 8. Dezember 2010, S. 4794-4798
DOI: 10.1021/nl1030425

Contact:
Dr. Andrey Lutich, Prof. Dr. Jochen Feldmann
Department für Physik der LMU
Tel.: 089 / 2180 – 1418 oder -3359
E-Mail: andrey.lutich@physik.lmu.de, feldmann@lmu.de
Web:  www.phog.physik.uni-muenchen.de

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