title: Optical Evaluation of the Surface Coverage of Silver Nanoparticle-coated Plastic Microbeads.
abstract: A simple evaluation method has been developed for a metal thin layer on a sphere-like plastic microstructure, based on its light-scattering property since, according to our results, the light-scattering intensity of silver-coated microbeads depends significantly on the silver coverage. Our attempt was carried out by using a dark-field microscopy coupled with a spectrometer.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Chemistry, Osaka Prefecture University.
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shiigi
authors.forename: Shohei
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: Takahiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fujita
authors.forename: Tsutomu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nagaoka