Self-Assembly Kinetics of Microscale Components: A Parametric Evaluation
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1057-7157,1941-0158
DOI: 10.1109/jmems.2014.2354137