Wiley, Benjamin J.Lipomi, Darren J.Bao, JimingCapasso, FedericoWhitesides, George M.2019-09-172008Wiley, Benjamin J., Darren J. Lipomi, Jiming Bao, Federico Capasso, and George M. Whitesides. 2008. “Fabrication of Surface Plasmon Resonators by Nanoskiving Single-Crystalline Gold Microplates.” Nano Letters 8 (9): 3023–28. https://doi.org/10.1021/nl802252r.1530-69841530-6992http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:41371305This paper demonstrates the sectioning of chemically synthesized, single-crystalline microplates of gold with an ultramicrotome (nanoskiving) to produce single-crystalline nanowires; these nanowires act as low-loss surface plasmon resonators. This method produces collinearly aligned nanostructures with small, regular changes in dimension with each consecutive cross-section: a single microplate thus can produce a number of "quasi-copies" (delicately modulated variations) of a nanowire. The diamond knife cuts cleanly through microplates 35 mu m in diameter and 100 nm thick without bending the resulting nanowire and cuts through the sharp edges of a crystal without deformation to generate nanoscale tips. This paper compares the influence of sharp tips and blunt tips on the resonator modes in these nanowires.en-USJournal Article2019-09-1710.1021/nl802252r