Nanostructured surfaces from size-selected clusters

Nature Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 443-448

  Palmer, R E ^a   Pratontep, S ^a   Boyen, H G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; DEPOSITION; DIFFUSION; DNA; MOLECULES; PROTEINS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; TEMPERATURE; ULTRAHIGH VACUUM;

GAS-PHASE CLUSTER SIZE; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOSTRUCTURES; SIZE-SELECTED ATOMIC CLUSTER;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

SILVER;

ARTICLE; MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SILVER;

EID: 0042766190     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat897     Document Type: Article

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