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STED nanolithography of three-dimensional plasmonic structures

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The application of the STED method (STimulated Emission Depletion) to silver photoreduction and metal and metalorganic nanostructure formation is demonstrated. We study the influence of various factors on the process of STED nanolithography. We investigate the morphology and structural parameters of the hybrid nanostructure arrays produced with the STED method. The influence of silver nanoparticles on the physical properties of photoinitiator molecules (DETC) manifests itself in a lifetime reduction of the excited state with 2.3 to 0.6 ns. A new method of additive nanotechnology is proposed.

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  1. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University), Institutskii per. 9, Dolgoprudny, Moscow oblast, 141700, Russia

    S. P. Eliseev, A. E. Korolkov, A. G. Vitukhnovsky, D. A. Chubich & V. V. Sychev

  2. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii pr. 53, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    A. E. Korolkov, A. G. Vitukhnovsky & V. V. Sychev

  3. National Research Nuclear University “MEPhI”, Kashirskoe sh. 31, Moscow, 115409, Russia

    A. G. Vitukhnovsky

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Original Russian Text © S.P. Eliseev, A.E. Korolkov, A.G. Vitukhnovsky, D.A. Chubich, V.V. Sychev, 2016, published in Rossiiskie Nanotekhnologii, 2016, Vol. 11, Nos. 3–4.

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Eliseev, S.P., Korolkov, A.E., Vitukhnovsky, A.G. et al. STED nanolithography of three-dimensional plasmonic structures. Nanotechnol Russia 11, 200–207 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995078016020038

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