Guided fracture of films on soft substrates to create micro/nano-feature arrays with controlled periodicity

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kim, Byoung Choul ^a   Matsuoka, Toshiki ^a   Moraes, Christopher ^a   Huang, Jiexi ^a   Thouless, M D ^a   Takayama, Shuichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 84889584190     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03027     Document Type: Article

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