Fabrication of nanogap structures through spatially shaped femtosecond laser modification with the assistance of wet chemical etching

Fabricating nanostructures with an extremely small feature size through a near-infrared femtosecond laser is a considerable challenge. In this Letter, we report a flexible, facile, and mask-free method that enables the formation of nanogap structures with a controllable size on silicon. This method involves spatially shaped femtosecond laser single-pulse modification assisted with chemical etching. Nanogaps obtained after etching can be divided into two categories, namely a ring dimer with a nanogap (type I) and Crack-nanogap (type II). The nanogap between the ring dimer could be reduced to 68 nm with a gradual increase in the laser fluence. For the Crack-nanogap obtained through crack propagation induced by stress release during a wet etching process, the smallest gap size is approximately 9 nm.

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2021

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2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:46

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Optics letters - 46(2021), 15 vom: 01. Aug., Seite 3560-3563

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhou, Shipeng [VerfasserIn]
Li, Xiaowei [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Ji [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Zhipeng [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Yang [VerfasserIn]
Gao, Shuai [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Zhijie [VerfasserIn]
Jiang, Lan [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 02.08.2021

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Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1364/OL.431385

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NLM328738204