A new semi-quantitative scratch-test method to assess the adhesion of gold nanoparticles on glass for ultrasensitive chemical and biochemical sensors

Bruno Guelorget (1) , Timothée Toury (2) , Hong Shen (2) , Marc Lamy de La Chapelle (3)

1 LASMIS - Laboratoire des Systèmes Mécaniques et d'Ingénierie Simultanée
2 LNIO - Laboratoire de Nanotechnologie et d'Instrumentation Optique
3 CSPBAT - Chimie, Structures et Propriétés de Biomatériaux et d'Agents Thérapeutiques

Ultrasensitive chemical and biochemical sensors are based on nanostructured gold surfaces on glass with good surface-enhanced Raman scattering measurement properties and enough good adhesion properties between gold and glass. In this paper, the scratch test is used in a new way to assess the critical load which takes off dashed gold lines on a glass substrate with different adhesion layers.

Keywords: Scratch test; Non-metallic glasses (silicates); Coatings; Nanostructure; Gold on glass adhesion

Domains: Micro and nanotechnologies/Microelectronics; Material chemistry; Optics [physics.optics]

Bruno Guelorget, Timothée Toury, Hong Shen, Marc Lamy de La Chapelle. A new semi-quantitative scratch-test method to assess the adhesion of gold nanoparticles on glass for ultrasensitive chemical and biochemical sensors. Scripta Materialia, 2012, 67 (5), pp.515-518. ⟨10.1016/j.scriptamat.2012.06.018⟩. ⟨hal-02290664⟩