Study of the electrostatic force between a conducting tip in proximity with a metallic surface: Theory and experiment

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 6940-6942

  Patil, Shivprasad ^a   Kulkarni, Arun V ^b   Dharmadhikari, C V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

^b BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

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EID: 1842691881     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1318362     Document Type: Article

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