Very Sharp Platinum Tips by Electrochemical Etching

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3 Experimental methods Martin Kupper 0830965Figure 3.5: Two tips after the etching step. The right picture shows the same tip asthe left with higher magnification.Figure 3.6: Two tips before and after the annealing step. The pictures on the rightshow the same tips as on the left but with higher magnificationThe tips should be cleaned again after the annealing as with the etching (Section3.2).10
3 Experimental methods Martin Kupper 0830965Figure 3.7: Test of the elastic properties of an annealed tip. The upper left pictureshows the tip before the bending. The three pictures on the right show twocareful crashes, and the two lower on the left a brutal crash on the silicon.3.4 MicropolishingTo reduce the diameter of the tip after the annealing and keep the surface smooth,an electrochemical micropolishing was done [2]. See Fig. 3.8 for the result. The microwirewas etched with an H 2 SO 4 solution diluted to 1% with distilled water. A goldwire-loop, with 4 mm in diameter, was dipped into the solution so that a thin filmappeared. The gold wire was mounted in a micromanipulator and under a opticalmicroscope it was moved so that the microwire was in contact with the H 2 SO 4 film(see Fig. 3.9). Because of the capillary action [10] the film coated the whole microwire.For the micropolishing a 3 V square wave voltage at 1kHz was applied for 12 s. Theelectrodes were the tip and the gold wire. During the micropolishing it was possible tosee bubbles appearing around the microwire, sometimes even without the microscope.It turned out, that this is not an indicator of the quality of the reaction if the bubblesare big. Sometimes it is an indication for that the contact between the H 2 SO 4 film11
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