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Carlos Angulo Barrios1, Víctor Canalejas-Tejero
1Instituto de Sistemas Optoelectrónicos y Microtecnología (ISOM), ETSI Telecomunicación, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain. carlos.angulo.barrios@upm.es.
Nanoscale
|January 30, 2015
Abstract:
We demonstrate that standard polycarbonate compact disk surfaces can provide unique adhesion to Al films that is both strong enough to permit Al film nanopatterning and weak enough to allow easy nanopatterned Al film detachment using Scotch tape. Transferred Al nanohole arrays on Scotch tape exhibit excellent optical and plasmonic performance.

