title: Response of the potential of a gold electrode to elastic strain.
abstract: We describe the measurement of the response, sigma, of the potential of a metal electrode to elastic strain under open circuit conditions. The experimental response exhibits a frequency dependence due to Faraday loss currents, which become negligible beyond 30 Hz. For a (111)-textured gold film the experimental value at higher frequency, sigma = -1.83 V, compares well with the intrinsic value of Au(111) predicted by recent ab initio computation.
authors.affiliation: Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Nanotechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany. maxim.smetanin@int.fzk.de
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Smetanin
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kramer
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mohanan
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Herr
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Weissmüller