Researchers from the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Lab used the Waviks' Vesta  to fabricate high purity gold films onto nanoscale 3D architectures . Their work was published in Nanomaterials. This is desirable as gold is conductive, inert, plasmonically active, and can be functionalized with thiol chemistries making it useful in biological applications.

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Schematic illustrating the temporal evolution during the selected area deposition process. (a) SEM images of an as-deposited FEBID nanopillar and subsequent images during the deposition process, where one is artificially colored to visualize the thermal effect of the laser. (b) A log time versus irradiance plot illustrating the various time scales that are operative where for instance the pulse width is 10 μs, the repetition rate is 1 kHz and the total processing time 200 s (with a 0.1% duty cycle and thus total laser on time of 0.2s).

Reference: 

Lasseter, J.; Rack, P.D.; Randolph, S.J. Selected Area Deposition of High Purity Gold for Functional 3D Architectures. Nanomaterials 2023, 13, 757. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13040757
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