Chemically well-defined lithography using self-assembled monolayers and scanning tunneling microscopy in nonpolar organothiol solutions

Langmuir

Volumn 16, Issue 15, 2000, Pages 6312-6316

  Gorman, Christopher B ^a   Carroll, Richard L ^a   He, Yufan ^a   Tian, Fang ^a   Fuierer, Ryan ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; LITHOGRAPHY; MONOLAYERS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

DECANETHIOLATE; DODECANETHIOLATE; SELF-ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS (SAM);

ELECTROCHEMISTRY;

EID: 0034229913     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la0003241     Document Type: Article

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