Capillary force on a nanoscale tip in dip-pen nanolithography

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 15, 2003, Pages

  Jang, Joonkyung ^a   Schatz, George C ^a   Ratner, Mark A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDENSATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIQUID MEMBRANES; LITHOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

CAPILLARY FORCE; DIP PEN NANOLITHOGRAPHY; MOLECULES COATING; NANOSCALE TIP; THERMODYNAMIC INTEGRATION TECHNIQUE;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0037526449     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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