(Fe,Mn)3O4 nanochannels fabricated by AFM local-oxidation nanolithography using Mo/poly(methyl methacrylate) nanomasks

Advanced Materials

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 3099-3104

  Pellegrino, Luca ^a,b   Yanagisawa, Yoshihiko ^a   Ishikawa, Mizue ^a   Matsumoto, Takuya ^a   Tanaka, Hidekazu ^a   Kawai, Tomoji ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ETCHING; FERROMAGNETISM; LITHOGRAPHY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OXIDATION; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES;

LOCAL ANODIC OXIDATION (LAO); NANOCHANNELS; NANOMASK; SPINTRONICS;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 33846160143     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200600997     Document Type: Article

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