Knudsen diffusion in silicon nanochannels

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Gruener, Simon ^a   Huber, Patrick ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; CHANNEL FLOW; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLOW OF GASES; HELIUM; PERMEATION; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

KNUDSEN DIFFUSION; NANOCHANNELS; SUBNANOMETER SCALES;

NANOTUBES;

EID: 40749091582     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.064502     Document Type: Article

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