Environmental dependence of atomic-scale friction at graphite surface steps

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Egberts, Philip ^a   Ye, Zhijiang ^b   Liu, Xin Z ^a   Dong, Yalin ^c   Martini, Ashlie ^b   Carpick, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84880864284     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.88.035409     Document Type: Article

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