Summary
This award will establish a device-ready wafer-based platform enabled by the controlled formation of large-area ultrathin crystals of gold. The work is motivated by an application space that is thriving in terms of state-of-the-art device demonstrations in nanophotonics and biosensing despite the use of ultrathin gold derived from tedious synthetic procedures and suboptimal nanofabrication processing techniques. Using a newly discovered gold microplate synthesis capable of realizing ultrathin gold at addressable positions, the research aims to fundamentally transform existing techniques with e
