Careful with those nanoplates

Our collaborative work on thermal processing of gold nanoplates with the O’Toole group (U of L Bioengineering) is accepted (update: published) at Materials Letters. We’ve used their triangular gold nanoplates to induce local heating of microelectromechanical (MEMS) structures with infrared lasers. The nanoplates are typically the first layer to go onto the MEMS wafer. In …