On the mTOR cancer other hand, the process of poling of the glass [15] concurrent with EFI decreases the refractive index of the glass matrix due to the evacuation of alkali and silver ions, which also blueshifts the SPR peak. Figre 1 Extinction spectrum of the GMN and SEM image of the stamp. (a) Extinction spectra of the GMN before (1) and after (2) the imprinting; the wavelengths of lasers used in the near-field experiments are marked with arrows: 633 (red arrow), 532 (green arrow), and 405 nm (violet arrow). The process of imprinting is schematically illustrated in the inset. (b) SEM image of the part of glassy carbon stamp used as

a positive electrode for imprinting; first three grooves of 100-, 150-, and 200-nm linewidths are shown. The white arrow points to 150 nm groove. The poling of GMN using the stamp, scanning electron image

of a part of which is shown in Figure 1b, has resulted in the dissolution of silver nanoparticles everywhere except the regions beneath the stamp grooves, that is in the formation of GMN strips (see the inset in Figure 1a). In the virgin glass, the imprinting resulted AZD5153 in poling of the glass [15] except the strips beneath the stamp grooves. The structure imprinted with the stamp is schematically depicted in Figure 2a. The results of the AFM characterization of the imprinted GMN are shown in Figure 2b. Here, one can see that formed surface humps replicate the profile of the used stamp [15, 19]. The surface profiling is caused by the relaxation of volume defects generated in the glass matrix after the evacuation of alkali ions from the subanodic region towards the cathode in the course of EFAD [14, 15]. The subsidence process is suppressed under the stamp grooves where neither alkali evacuation nor nanoparticle dissolution occurs. It is worth noting that the profile heights measured in the imprinted glass and GMN are of the same order, since the dissolution of the nanoparticles results in (-)-p-Bromotetramisole Oxalate the formation of voids coinciding in size with the dissolved particles [20], and the relaxation is related

only to the alkali evacuation. Figre 2 Imprinted structure and the results of the AFM and SNOM characterization of the imprinted GMN. (a) Scheme of the stamp and the sample surface after the EFI process. The stamp grooves of 100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 350, 400, 450, 500, and 600 nm in width and corresponding imprinted strips are marked with numbers from 1 to 10, respectively. (b) AFM of the composite sample surface after the EFI process. Quantitative data is presented in the next figures. Near-field images of the sample at three different excitation wavelengths: (c) 633, (d) 532, and (e) 405 nm. The results of the AFM measurements averaged along the imprinted strips (see Figure 3, bottom) indicate that the increase in the grooves width up to 500 to 600 nm results in the increase of the hump height up to the value of 45 to 50 nm. For wider strips, the height stays constant.