Electrically induced structure formation and pattern transfer

Nature

Volumn 403, Issue 6772, 2000, Pages 874-877

  Schäffer, Erik ^a   Thurn Albrecht, Thomas ^b   Russell, Thomas P ^b   Steiner, Ullrich ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRODE; FILM; LIQUID; PATTERN GENERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE TENSION; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0038470648     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35002540     Document Type: Article

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