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Integration of Individual Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles into Nanoelectrode Configurations: Recent Advances
Author(s) -
Karthäuser Silvia,
Peter Sophia,
Simon Ulrich
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
european journal of inorganic chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.667
H-Index - 136
eISSN - 1099-0682
pISSN - 1434-1948
DOI - 10.1002/ejic.202000629
Subject(s) - nanotechnology , nanoelectronics , nanoparticle , nanoscopic scale , colloidal gold , lithography , fabrication , chemistry , materials science , optoelectronics , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
Chemically synthesized gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have attracted much interest for application in various technologically relevant fields including nanoelectronics. In this particular research area, the most promising approach to take full advantage of the tunability in size, shape, and ligand composition of nanoparticles is the integration of a well‐defined number of AuNPs into a nanoscale device. This short review highlights recent progress in the introduction of AuNP into nanoelectronic circuitry by means of selected examples, that demonstrate a “proof‐of‐concept”. Synthetic concepts to obtain isotropic and Janus‐like particles as well as lithographic techniques that allow for the fabrication of nanoelectrode structures, which enable the electrical addressing of individual nanoparticles, are presented. A particular focus of this work is the question of how distinct molecular properties can be addressed in a technologically applicable device geometry by controlling the molecular functionalities in the proximity of semiconductor technology.