Nanocarpet effect: Pattern formation during the wetting of vertically aligned nanorod arrays

Nano Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2133-2138

  Fan, J G ^a   Dyer, D ^a,b   Zhang, G ^a,b   Zhao, Y P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b University of Georgia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOROD ARRAYS; PATTERN FORMATION; PERCOLATED PATTERNS; WATER DROPLETS;

DEFORMATION; ESTIMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; MORPHOLOGY; SILICON; STATISTICAL METHODS; WETTING;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 9644258567     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl048776b     Document Type: Article

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