Maskless nanopatterning and formation of nanocorrals and switches, for haloalkanes at Si(111)-7 × 7

Nanotechnology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Dobrin, S ^a   Harikumar, K R ^a   Lim, T B ^a   Leung, L ^a,b   McNab, I R ^a   Polanyi, J C ^a   Sloan, P A ^a,c   Waqar, Z ^a   Yang, J ^a   Ayissi, S ^b   Hofer, W A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTONS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES; SULFUR;

ATOMIC BROMINE; HALOALKANES; NANOCORRALS; SURFACE CHARGE DISTRIBUTION;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33846804466     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/18/4/044012     Document Type: Article

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