Surface energy maps of nanostructures: Atomic force microscopy and numerical simulation study

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 3740-3742

  Mechler, Ádám ^a,b   Kokavecz, Janos ^b   Heszler, Peter ^c   Lal, Ratnesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ETCHING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; RESONANCE;

ETCH PITS;

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EID: 0037665889     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1577392     Document Type: Article

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