Water-bridge-assisted ionic conduction in probe-induced conical polymer pattern formation

Advanced Materials

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1386-1390

  Xie, Xian Ning ^a   Chung, Hong Jing ^a   Sow, Chorng Hour ^a   Bettiol, Andrew Anthony ^a   Wee, Andrew Thye Shen ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONICAL STRUCTURE; DIELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM (FWHM); JOULE HEATING;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL BONDS; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; DECOMPOSITION; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; IONIC CONDUCTION; IONIZATION; MELTING; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OXIDATION; PLASTIC FILMS;

POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES;

EID: 20444502580     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200500204     Document Type: Article

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