Influence of a surfactant on single ion track etching: Preparing and manipulating cylindrical micro wires

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 265, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 621-625

  Man, Leo C T ^a   Apel, Pavel ^b   Cheung, T ^a   Westerberg, Lars ^c   Yu, K N ^a   Zet, Cristian ^d   Spohr, Reimar ^e  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d GHEORGHE ASACHI TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

^e GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cylinder; Electro conduction; Electro replication; Ion track; Micro channel; Micro tube; Micro wire; Nano channel; Nano wire; Real time measurement; Surfactant interaction; Track etching

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); NANOWIRES; POLYCARBONATES; REACTIVE ION ETCHING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ELECTRO CONDUCTION; ELECTRO REPLICATION; ION TRACK; MICRO CHANNEL; MICRO TUBE; MICRO WIRE; NANO CHANNEL; REAL-TIME MEASUREMENT; SURFACTANT INTERACTION; TRACK ETCHING;

SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 36448963078     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2007.09.029     Document Type: Article

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