`Millipede' - more than one thousand tips for future AFM data storage

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 323-340

  Vettiger, P ^a   Despont, M ^a   Drechsler, U ^a   Durig U ^a   Haberle W ^a   Lutwyche, M I ^a   Rothuizen, H E ^a   Stutz, R ^a   Widmer, R ^a   Binnig, G K ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; MICROMACHINING; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; PLASTIC FILMS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; THIN FILMS;

THERMOMECHANICAL LOCAL-PROBE TECHNIQUES;

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0033704649     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/rd.443.0323     Document Type: Article

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