Fabrication of Gold Nanowires by Electric‐Field‐Induced Scanning Probe Lithography and In Situ Chemical Development

Sowing seeds to grow wires: A new approach for the fabrication of surface-confined gold nanostructures for electronic and plasmonic applications is described. Clusters of gold atoms (seeds) are deposited during nanostructure patterning by electric-field-induced scanning probe lithography (seeimage); these seeds are subsequently developed in situ. This simple approach can be extended to other metals, and is promising for massively parallel implementation through anodization stamping.