Atom probe microscopy of self-assembled monolayers: Preliminary results

Langmuir

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 5291-5294

  Gault, Baptiste ^a   Yang, Wenrong ^b   Ratinac, Kyle R ^b   Zheng, Rongkun ^b   Braet, Filip ^b   Ringer, Simon P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOM PROBE; ATOM-PROBE TOMOGRAPHY; DECANETHIOL; MASS SPECTRA; METAL SUBSTRATE; METAL SURFACES; ORGANIC MATERIALS; SAMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROBES; SPECIMEN PREPARATION; SUBSTRATES; SULFUR; TOMOGRAPHY;

SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS;

EID: 77950933686     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la904459k     Document Type: Article

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