Shrinking of Solid-state Nanopores by Direct Thermal Heating

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-6

  Asghar, Waseem ^a,b   Ilyas, Azhar ^a,b   Billo, Joseph Anthony ^a,b   Iqbal, Samir Muzaffar ^a,b  

^a The University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT HEATING; FOCUSED ION BEAM MILLING; FREE STANDING MEMBRANES; LINEAR SHRINKAGE RATES; NANOMETER PRECISION; PORE WALL; SINGLE-MOLECULE; SOLID-STATE NANOPORE; SURFACE FREE ENERGY; THERMAL HEATING;

OXIDE FILMS; SHRINKAGE; SILICA; SOLID-STATE SENSORS;

NANOPORES;

EID: 84055174629     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-372     Document Type: Article

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