Elastic property of vertically aligned nanowires

Nano Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1954-1958

  Song, Jinhui ^a   Wang, Xudong ^a   Riedo, Elisa ^b   Wang, Zhong L ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOWIRES; SAPPHIRE SURFACE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; SAPPHIRE; SCANNING;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 27544478223     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl051334v     Document Type: Article

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