Electronically stabilized nanowire growth

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Mocking, Tijs F ^a   Bampoulis, Pantelis ^a   Oncel, Nuri ^b   Poelsema, Bene ^a   Zandvliet, Harold J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GERMANIUM; IRIDIUM; NANOWIRE;

ELECTRON; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; IRIDIUM; MEASUREMENT METHOD; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; STABILIZATION; VISUALIZATION;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRON; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84883431674     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3387     Document Type: Article

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