Using capillary forces to determine the geometry of nanocontacts

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Butt, Hans Jürgen ^a   Farshchi Tabrizi, Mahdi ^a,b   Käppl, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b BU ALI SINA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CAPILLARITY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FORCE MEASUREMENT; GEOMETRY; HUMIDITY CONTROL;

CONTACT REGION; PRECISE GEOMETRY;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33746784127     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2210188     Document Type: Article

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