Fabricating artificial nanowells with tunable size and shape by using scanning tunneling microscopy

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Li, Shao Chun ^a,c   Jia, Jin Feng ^a   Xucun, Ma ^a   Xue, Qi Kun ^a   Han, Yong ^b   Liu, Feng ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NANOWELLS; MANIPULATION PARAMETERS; NANOARRAY PATTERNS;

DEPOSITION; FILM GROWTH; QUANTUM THEORY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SUBSTRATES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33748961689     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2355461     Document Type: Article

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