Low-cost nanomanipulator for in situ experiments in a SEM

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 311-316

  Nakabayashi, Denise ^a,b   Silva, Paulo C ^a   González, Juan C ^a   Rodrigues, Varlei ^a,b   Ugarte, Daniel ^a,b  

^a LABORATÓRIO NACIONAL DE LUZ SÍNCROTRON   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Nanomanipulator; Nanosystems; Scanning electron microscope

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746209192     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: 14358115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927606060338     Document Type: Article

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