Deposited Gold for Charge Referencing – Be Careful

BE of Gold deposited as a thin film changes as the thickness of the Gold increases, which makes deposited Gold very difficult to use for Charge Referencing.

A bigger problem is that Gold islands migrate with time to make bigger clusters which makes it even more difficult to trust this style of charge referencing.

 

Reference Kohiki paper

 

 

 

Reference:

C.C. Chusei, X. Lai, K. Luo and D. W. Goodman, Topics in Catalysis, Vol 14, pp 71-83, (2001)