Scanning probe microscopy - Principle of operation, instrumentation, and probes

Nanotribology and Nanomechanics (Second Edition): An Introduction

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 37-110

  Bhushan, Bharat ^a   Marti, Othmar ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

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