• Our gold-coated substrates enable you to:
  • Avoid paying clean room access fees
  • Avoid contamination problems from multi-user evaporators
  • Avoid reproducibility problems

• Features Include:
  • Plasma-cleaned surfaces
  • Electron-beam deposited metal films
  • Titanium adhesion layer
  • Prepared in a dedicated clean environment
  • Availability of ellipsometric constants

Substrate	Description	Datasheet	Pack Size	Order
	Gold Coated Aluminosilicate Glass Slides Au 1' x 3' x 0.7mm 100 A Au over 20 A Ti Adhesion Layer		5
	Gold Coated Aluminosilicate Glass Slides Au 1' x 3' x 0.7mm 500 A Au over 25 A Ti Adhesion Layer		5
	Gold Coated Aluminosilicate Glass Slides 1' x 3' x 0.7mm 1000 A Au over 50 A Ti Adhesion Layer		5
	Gold Coated Coverslips Coated 22mm square, 0.13 to 0.16mm thickness 100 A Au over Titanium adhesion layer		12
	Gold Coated Coverslips Coated 22mm square, 0.13 to 0.16mm thickness 500 A Au over Titanium adhesion layer		12
	Gold Coated Coverslips Coated 15mm round, 0.13 to 0.16mm thickness 100 A Au over Titanium adhesion layer		24
	Gold Coated Mica 2000A Au 1' x 1.5' mica		1
	Gold Coated Mica 2000A Au 1' x 3' mica		1
	Gold Coated Silicon Wafers 4' diameter, 525um thickness 1000 A Au over 50A Ti adhesion layer		3
	Gold Coated Silicon Wafers 4' diameter, 525um thickness 1000 A Au over 50A Ti adhesion layer		12
	Template Stripped Gold Chips - Mica 1cm x 1cm glass chips adhered to a 2000 A gold-coated piece of mica		5
	Template Stripped Gold Chips - Silicon Wafer 1cm x 1cm glass chips adhered to 1000A gold-coated prime grade silicon wafer		20

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Applications:

Cell Culture
Substrates are prepared in an electron beam evaporator that is solely dedicated to the deposition of gold films. This prevents the occurrence of impurity metals (e.g., trace levels of Cu) contaminating the gold films, as is the case when multi-user equipment is used to coat gold substrates

Microarrays
Substrates are prepared in an electron beam evaporator using titanium, not chromium, as the adhesion layer. This avoids the contamination that can occur when a thin layer of chromium is used to promote adhesion of the gold film to an underlying substrate (such as a glass microscope slide), since chromium readily dissolves and diffuses to the surface of the gold film (and can adversely modify the reactivity of the gold).

Surface Plasmon Reflectometry
Substrates are deposited using an electron beam evaporator, which permits precise control of gold deposition rates and thus the surface roughness. This ensures a high level of control over the thickness and nanometer-scale surface roughness of gold films, as is necessary in order to generate reproducible results with surface plasmon reflectometry.

Scanning Probe Microscopy
Substrates deposited on mica can be thermally annealed or transferred to epoxy resin (reverse mounting) to form atomically flat surfaces suitable for scanning probe microscopy.