Hironobu Sato et al 2007 J. Micromech. Microeng. 17 2211 doi:10.1088/0960-1317/17/11/006
Hironobu Sato, Yutaka Sasamoto, Daisuke Yagyu, Tetsushi Sekiguchi and Shuichi Shoji
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47.60.-i Flow phenomena in quasi-one-dimensional systems
Issue 11 (November 2007)
Received 21 May 2007, in final form 3 August 2007
Published 3 October 2007
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