Exploiting the properties of carbon nanotubes for nanolithography

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 73, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1508-1510

  Dai, Hongjie ^a   Franklin, Nathan ^a   Han, Jie ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0000662939     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.122188     Document Type: Article

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