Engineering patterns of Co nanoclusters on thin film Al2O 3/NiAl(100) using scanning tunneling microscopy manipulation techniques

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Sartale, Shrikrishina D ^a   Lin, Ku Liang ^b   Chiang, Chou I ^a   Luo, Meng Fan ^a   Kuo, Chien Cheng ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; CRYSTAL GROWTH; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; THIN FILMS;

CO NANOCLUSTERS; MANIPULATION TECHNIQUES; PATTERNED NANOCLUSTERS; SELF-ORGANIZED PATTERNING;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33747112735     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2221394     Document Type: Article

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