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Oxides offer the write stuff

Nature Nanotechnology volume 4, pages 279–280 (2009)Cite this article

An atomic force microscope has been used to create nanoscale field-effect transistors and other electronic devices at the interface between two different oxide materials.

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Figure 1: The novel electronic properties that are found at the interfaces between different oxide materials can be manipulated with an atomic force microscope.

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