“…There are several techniques which have been used to study the adsorption process of alkanethiols on gold. Notable among them being, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) [4]- [6], cyclic voltammetry (CV) [7], [8], quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) [9]- [12], contact angle [13], [14], ellipsometry [13], [15], infrared spectroscopy [16], surface plasma resonance (SPR) [17]- [19], surface second harmonic generation study (SHG) [20], [21], time-of-flight-secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) [22], atomic force microscopy (AFM) [23], [24], and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) [25], [26].…”