Self-organized growth of nanostructure arrays on strain-relief patterns

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6692, 1998, Pages 451-453

  Brune, Harald ^a   Giovannini, Marcella ^a   Bromann, Karsten ^a   Kern, Klaus ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

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NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0032581556     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/28804     Document Type: Article

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