@article { ISI:000287049100055,
	title = {Patterning the Tips of Optical Fibers with Metallic Nanostructures Using Nanoskiving},
	journal = {Nano Letters},
	volume = {11},
	number = {2},
	year = {2011},
	month = {FEB},
	pages = {632-636},
	publisher = {AMER CHEMICAL SOC},
	type = {Article},
	address = {1155 16TH ST, NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20036 USA},
	abstract = {Convenient and inexpensive methods to pattern the facets of optical fibers with metallic nanostructures would enable many applications. This communication reports a method to generate and transfer arrays of metallic nanostructures to the cleaved facets of optical fibers. The process relies on nanoskiving, in which an ultramicrotome, equipped with a diamond knife, sections epoxy nanostructures coated with thin metallic films and embedded in a block of epoxy. Sectioning produces arrays. of nanostructures embedded in thin epoxy slabs, which can be transferred Manually to the tips of optical fibers at a rate of approximately 2 min(-1), with 88\% yield. Etching the epoxy matrices leaves arrays of nanostructures supported directly by the facets of the optical fibers. Examples of structures{\textquoteright} transferred include gold crescents, rings, high-aspect-ratio concentric cylinders, and gratings of parallel nanowires.},
	keywords = {fiber optics, nanofabrication, Nanoskiving, plasmonics, SERS, ultramicrotomy},
	issn = {1530-6984},
	doi = {10.1021/nl103730g},
	author = {Lipomi, Darren J. and Ramses V. Martinez and Mikhail A. Kats and Kang, Sung H. and Kim, Philseok and Aizenberg, Joanna and Federico Capasso and George M. Whitesides}
}
