Restructuring tungsten thin films into nanowires and hollow square cross-section microducts

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2889-2894

  Parthangal, Prahalad M ^a,b   Cavicchi, Richard E ^b   Montgomery, Christopher B ^b   Turner, Shirley ^b   Zachariah, Michael R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; HEAT TREATMENT; MASS TRANSFER; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NITROGEN OXIDES; THIN FILMS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WIRE;

HOLLOW SQUARE CROSS-SECTION MICRODUCTS; NANOWIRES; TUNGSTEN WIRES;

TUNGSTEN;

EID: 33645452256     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/JMR.2005.0373     Document Type: Article

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