Controlling nanoscale friction through the competition between capillary adsorption and thermally activated sliding

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 4305-4313

  Greiner, Christian ^a,c   Felts, Jonathan R ^b   Dai, Zhenting ^b   King, William P ^b   Carpick, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

AFM; Friction; Heated probes; Silicon oxide; Sliding speed

Indexed keywords

AFM; AMBIENT AIR; AMBIENT ATMOSPHERE; CANTILEVER PROBE; CAPILLARY CONDENSATION; DRY NITROGEN; FRICTION FORCE; HEATED PROBE; HEATER TEMPERATURES; IN-SITU; LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL; NANO SCALE; NANOSCALE FRICTION; RATE OF INCREASE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SILICON OXIDE SUBSTRATES; SLIDING SPEED; SLIDING-MODEL; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; THERMALLY ACTIVATED; THERMALLY ACTIVATED PROCESS;

ADSORPTION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; FRICTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROBES; SILICON OXIDES; SPEED; TRIBOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84864697014     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn300869w     Document Type: Article

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