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Self-Organized Arrays of Gold Nanoparticles

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In a world in which the information and communication technology has gradually assumed a pivotal role for scientific, technological and social purposes, there is a constantly growing demand for smaller and faster devices able of manipulating information, typically in the form of electronic, magnetic or optical signals. The request of smaller and faster devices has inevitably led to a constant process of miniaturization of their elementary components, thereby bringing along a huge load of scientific and technological challenges that researchers and engineers have to face. Nowadays, for example, state-of-the-art technology requires excellent control of structures having typical lateral dimension of the order of approximately ten nanometers, not too far off molecular dimensions.

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