Large-scale boron nanowire nanojunctions and their highly-oriented arrays

Science in China, Series G: Physics Astronomy

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 621-633

  Cao, Limin ^a,b   Zhang, Ze ^b   Wang, Wenkui ^a,b  

^a YANSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Boron nanowires; Magnetron sputtering; Nanojunctions; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751441078     PISSN: 16721799     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/03yw0168     Document Type: Article

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