I am using gold to coat the AAO template in order to achieve conductivity. The coating on the template is blackish and does not conduct. Hence can anybody help me out here if they have already worked on AAO templates before.
I could not resolve this issue so I ended up doing thermal evaporation instead, which worked. I analyzed the black coated sample and found that it was gold but the deposition was very thin and hence appeared black in colour. It was not enough to create a conducting layer that was needed.