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Nanometer-scale friction can be altered electronically or mechanically. The results may lead to more reliable nanometer-scale devices.
The author is in the Department of Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA. E-mail:
carpick{at}engr.wisc.edu
Anisoara Socoliuc, Enrico Gnecco, Sabine Maier, Oliver Pfeiffer, Alexis Baratoff, Roland Bennewitz, and Ernst Meyer (14 July 2006) Science313 (5784), 207.
[DOI: 10.1126/science.1125874] |Abstract »|Full Text »|PDF »