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Preparation of mesoscopic gold rings and split rings by selective wetting of the contact points between the spheres within colloidal crystals

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Rings and split rings of sub-micrometer size are prepared by the infiltration of colloidal crystals of spherical silica particles with diameters of about 1 μm by diluted solutions of tetrachloroauric acid in butanone, followed by the evaporation of the butanone, the annealing of the samples at elevated temperatures and the removal of the silica spheres with hydrofluoric acid. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and electron backscatter diffraction investigations reveal that the obtained rings and split rings are made out of metallic gold.

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  1. We obtain an average value for the outer diameter of 405 nm ± 130 nm for 274 investigated rings and an average value for the inner diameter of 130 nm ± 60 nm for 144 investigated rings. (The measurement is limited due to the resolution of the SEM images. Thus, not all images useful for the determination of the outer diameters are suitable to determine the inner diameters.)

  2. A detailed counting of 1142 objects obtained from 3 independent experiments reveals 29.51% of completely closed rings.

  3. According to Channel 5 (software manual, HKL Technology, 2004): ‘A number under 1° is acceptable for most systems’ (p. 5.11) & ‘Ideally, the MAD number should be below 0.5°’ (p. 5.35).

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Acknowledgements

We thank G. Baumann, Solid Surfaces Analysis Group, Chemnitz University of Technology, for the kind support during the SEM measurements. We also thank O. Vilkov and W. Braun from the Russian-German Laboratory at BESSY II (Helmholtz-Centre, Berlin), for their helpful assistance with the XPS measurements. H. Schletter acknowledges financial support via Landesinnovationspromotion (financed by the European Social Fund and the Free State of Saxony). D. Lehmann acknowledges financial support by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (project 03IS2011 ‘nanett’). F. Haidu acknowledges financial support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Research Unit 1154 ‘Towards Molecular Spintronics’.

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    Sabine Kaufmann & Werner A. Goedel

  2. Solid Surfaces Analysis Group, Institute of Physics, Chemnitz University of Technology, 09107, Chemnitz, Germany

    Herbert Schletter & Michael Hietschold

  3. Semiconductor Physics, Institute of Physics, Chemnitz University of Technology, 09107, Chemnitz, Germany

    Daniel Lehmann, Francisc Haidu & Dietrich R. T. Zahn

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Kaufmann, S., Schletter, H., Lehmann, D. et al. Preparation of mesoscopic gold rings and split rings by selective wetting of the contact points between the spheres within colloidal crystals. J Mater Sci 47, 4530–4539 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-012-6307-4

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