Gold Ion Beam Milled Gold Zero-Mode Waveguides

Troy C. Messina; Bernadeta R. Srijanto; Charles Patrick Collier; Ivan I. Kravchenko; Christopher I. Richards

doi:10.3390/nano12101755

Gold Ion Beam Milled Gold Zero-Mode Waveguides

Troy C. Messina, Bernadeta R. Srijanto, Charles Patrick Collier, Ivan I. Kravchenko, Christopher I. Richards

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Abstract

Zero-mode waveguides (ZMWs) are widely used in single molecule fluorescence microscopy for their enhancement of emitted light and the ability to study samples at physiological concentrations. ZMWs are typically produced using photo or electron beam lithography. We report a new method of ZMW production using focused ion beam (FIB) milling with gold ions. We demonstrate that ion-milled gold ZMWs with 200 nm apertures exhibit similar plasmon-enhanced fluorescence seen with ZMWs fabricated with traditional techniques such as electron beam lithography.

Original language	English
Article number	1755
Journal	Nanomaterials
Volume	12
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12101755
State	Published - May 1 2022

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Funding: This work was funded by the Appalachian College Association Faculty Fellowship program and NIH grant R01GM138837.

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nanostructures
single molecule
single molecule spectroscopy
sub-wavelength apertures
zero-mode waveguides

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