W. Kautek et al., TEMPLATE ELECTRODEPOSITION OF NANOWIRE ARRAYS ON GOLD FOILS FABRICATED BY PULSED-LASER DEPOSITION, Electrochimica acta, 40(10), 1995, pp. 1461-1468
A novel procedure to generate stable and rigid metal nanowire arrays w
ith diameters between 100 and 600 nm and densities of similar to 10(8)
cm(-2) is presented, It combines (a) pulsed-laser deposition of an ad
herent and homogeneous gold cathode foil on a polycarbonate track-etch
template (b) reinforcement and levelling by electroplating, and (c) t
he potentiostatic growth of the nanowire array through the etch tracks
under convection control in an electrochemical jet cell.