Methyl monolayers improve the fracture strength and durability of silicon nanobeams

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 23, 2006, Pages

  Alan, Tuncay ^a,b   Zehnder, Alan T ^a   Sengupta, Debodhonyaa ^a   Hines, Melissa A ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COATINGS; DURABILITY; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; MONOLAYERS; OXIDATION; SILICON;

METHYL MONOLAYERS; METHYL TERMINATED BEAMS; STRESS CONCENTRATORS; WEIBULL FRACTURE STRENGTH;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33845439609     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2400180     Document Type: Article

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