Soap-film coating: High-speed deposition of multilayer nanofilms

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Zhang, Renyun ^a   Andersson, Henrik A ^a   Andersson, Mattias ^a   Andres, Britta ^a   Edlund, Håkan ^a   Edström, Per ^a   Edvardsson, Sverker ^a   Forsberg, Sven ^a   Hummelgård, Magnus ^a   Johansson, Niklas ^a   Karlsson, Kristoffer ^a   Nilsson, Hans Erik ^a   Norgren, Magnus ^a   Olsen, Martin ^a   Uesaka, Tetsu ^a   Öhlund, Thomas ^a   Olin, Håkan ^a  

^a MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 84875767174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01477     Document Type: Article

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