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High Optical Quality Gold and Mica Slide, and DNA-deposited Slides

• Slide dimensions are 3 x 1 inches, 1mm thick.

• Slides are available as either patterned or continuously coated, and in two different coating thicknesses, 200Å and 500Å.

• Patterned slides contain three gold dots, each dot 6mm diameter. The gold is evaporated on the slide with a 50Å layer of chromium between the gold and glass slide surface. The gold coating is not atomically flat, but has nm size bumps across the surface. Gold coating thickness tolerance is +/- 50Å.

• Mica slide substrate is a semi-transparent cleaved mica. Slides are autoclavable.

• Each DNA-deposited slide is individually qualified with a B-S force measurement. For additional DNA application information, see our application note on DNA.

Please note we only accept US and Canadian orders.

Recommended Cleaning and Handling

To ensure fingerprints do not get on the slides, handle with latex gloves. To lightly clean the slides, you may use an optical wipe with the corner dunked in high purity alcohol. Lightly drag this across the surface. Otherwise, we do not recommend cleaning or reusing the slides.

Continuous gold coated slide

Patterned gold coated slide