Air trapped nanocavity induced superhydrophobicity on GaN microbelt

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Sahoo, Prasana ^a   Dhara, S ^a   Dash, S ^a   Raj, Baldev ^a   Manna, I ^b,c   Tyagi, A K ^a  

^a INDIRA GANDHI CENTRE FOR ATOMIC RESEARCH   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c CSIR CENTRAL GLASS AND CERAMIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IDEAL MODEL; LIQUID DROPLETS; MACROSCOPIC SURFACES; MICROBELTS; NANO-CAVITIES; NANO-METER-SCALE; NANOTEXTURED SURFACE; SUPERHYDROPHOBICITY; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES;

GALLIUM ALLOYS; GALLIUM NITRIDE; HYDROPHOBICITY;

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 79551636328     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3541877     Document Type: Article

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