Bistable nanowire for micromechanical memory

Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Charlot, B ^a   Sun, W ^b   Yamashita, K ^b   Fujita, H ^b   Toshiyoshi, H ^a,b  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; MICROMECHANICS; NONVOLATILE STORAGE; SILICA;

BISTABLE NANOWIRES; MICROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MICROMECHANICAL MEMORY; NON-VOLATILE MECHANICAL MEMORY;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 42549104982     PISSN: 09601317     EISSN: 13616439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/18/4/045005     Document Type: Article

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