Mechanical elasticity of single and double clamped silicon nanobeams fabricated by the vapor-liquid-solid method

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Paulo, A San ^a   Bokor, J ^a   Howe, R T ^a   He, R ^b   Yang, P ^b   Gao, D ^c   Carraro, C ^c   Maboudian, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; NANOWIRE DEFLECTIONS; VAPOR-LIQUID-SOLID METHODS; VLS GROWN NANOSTRUCTURES;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALS; DEFLECTION (STRUCTURES); ELASTICITY; SILICON; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33645502737     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2008364     Document Type: Article

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