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PLATYPUS®
TEMPLATE STRIPPED GOLD CHIPS

Fresh, Clean and UltraFlat Gold Surfaces Everytime!

Platypus® Template Stripped Gold Chips provide an extremely smooth and clean gold surface for a variety of research needs, including AFM and SEM applications, biosensor development, and SAMs studies. Immediately before use, simply strip a chip (1cm x 1cm) from a gold-coated templating surface. Choose between chips stripped from a gold-coated atomically flat, cleaved mica template or chips stripped from a gold-coated prime grade silicon wafer template. Unlike epitaxially grown or flame annealed atomically flat Au (111) terraces that are smooth over minute surface areas (< 2 um2), Platypus® Template Stripped Gold Chips have an ultraflat, thin film of gold that covers the entire surface area of the chip.

  • Platypus® Template Stripped Gold Chips Features & Benefits:
    • Consistent Topography - Gold on chips remains ultraflat until stripped from the mica or silicon wafer template.
    • Uncontaminated Surface - Gold on chips is protected from atmospheric hydrocarbons until stripped from the template, and when used immediately upon stripping, provides a pristine surface uncontaminated by organics.
    • Ready to Use - Chips do not require cleaning prior to use, thus eliminating the need for caustic piranha cleaning solution or expensive cleaning equipment.
    • Convenient - Multiple chips per template make it easy to prepare fresh, clean, and ultraflat chips just seconds before your next experiment.

    Immediately upon stripping, Platypus® Template Stripped Gold Chips provide an RMS roughness approaching atomic flatness as measured over a 1 um2 area with a water static contact angle substantially similar to that of a freshly deposited, high-energy gold surface. Platypus® Template Stripped Gold Chips are offered in gold film thicknesses of 1000 or 2000 Angstroms. Customers can request a Certificate of Analysis for lot-specific RMS values when ordering.

  • AFM Characterization

    Representative data of RMS roughness over a randomly selected 1 um2 area on gold surfaces.

  • Goniometer Characterization

    Representative data of water static contact angle on gold surfaces.



  • ORDER TEMPLATE STRIPPED GOLD CHIPS

    Product Number Product Description Package Size Price
    AU.2000.MTSG Platypus® Template Stripped Gold - Mica
    1 cm x 1 cm glass chips adhered to a 2000 A gold-coated mica template
    		 5 chips on 1 piece of mica $853
    AU.1000.SWTSG Platypus® Template Stripped Gold - Silicon Wafer
     1 cm x 1 cm glass chips adhered to a 1000 A gold-coated silicon wafer template
    		 20 chips on 1 silicon wafer $770

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