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Gold Nanoparticles Generated by Electron Beam Lithography of Gold(I)-Thiolate Thin Films Muriel K. Corbierre,† Jean Beerens,‡ and R. Bruce Lennox*,† Department of Chemistry and FQRNT Centre for Self-Assembled Chemical Structures, McGill UniVersity, 801 Sherbrooke Street West, Montre´ al, QC, H3A 2K6 Canada, and De´ partement de Ge´ nie Electrique et Informatique, UniVersite´ de Sherbrooke, 2500 Boul. de l’UniVersite´ , Sherbrooke, QC, J1K 2R1 Canada ReceiVed May 20, 2005. ReVised Manuscript ReceiVed August 23, 2005
Patterned arrays of gold nanoparticles in two dimensions were prepared by the electron beam reduction and subsequent thermolysis of gold(I)-thiolate complexes on silicon surfaces. The array line widths are
