Self-Assembled Masks for the Transfer of Nanometer-Scale Patterns into Surfaces: Characterization by AFM and LFM

Nano Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 131-135

  Meli, Maria Victoria ^a   Badia, Antonella ^a,b   Grütter, Peter ^a   Lennox, R Bruce ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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EID: 0037655226     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl015639v     Document Type: Article

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