journal article·2026-07

Fabrication of thick AAO template via stepwise voltage reduction hard anodization for long nanowire arrays

Wen Huang, Jiaxing Liu, Hongwei Yang, Yan Zhang, Fang Xu, Guixiang Liu, Bo Dai, Xiaoyu Li, Yong Ren

Applied Physics A· Volume 132· Issue 7
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