Study of liquid crystal prewetting films by atomic force microscopy in tapping mode

Langmuir

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2916-2922

  Bardon, Sébastien ^a,c   Valignat, Marie Pierre ^a   Cazabat, Anne Marie ^a   Stocker, Wolfgang ^b   Rabe, Jürgen P ^b  

^a Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie   (France)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; FILMS; SILICON WAFERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

LIQUID CRYSTAL PREWETTING FILMS;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0032074830     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la971206p     Document Type: Article

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