Novel process for forming a gold crystal film with high (111) orientation on a substrate has been established using a supersaturated solution of [AuI4] − . The gold crystal film has a grain size of approximately 200 µm and an atomically flat surface, which provides sufficient quality for the substrate of SPM observation. High resolution and accuracy AFM images for a plasmid DNA thus have been obtained using the gold crystal film.
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