Using remarkably simple experimental techniques it is possible to gently break a metallic contact and thus form conducting nanowires. During the last stages of the pulling a neck …
Abstract Several researchers,,,,,,, have demonstrated, through experiments and analysis, that the structure and properties of nanometre-scale materials can be quite different to those …
J Diao, K Gall, ML Dunn - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2004 - Elsevier
We performed atomistic simulations to study the effect of free surfaces on the structure and elastic properties of gold nanowires aligned in the〈 1 0 0〉 and〈 1 1 1〉 crystallographic …
We performed atomistic simulations to study the effect of free surfaces on the yielding of gold nanowires. Tensile surface stresses on the surfaces of the nanowires cause them to contract …
During the fracture of nanocontacts gold spontaneously forms freely suspended chains of atoms, which is not observed for the isoelectronic noble metals Ag and Cu. Au also differs …
SJA Koh, HP Lee, C Lu, QH Cheng - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2005 - APS
Nanoscale research has been an area of active research over the past fifteen years. This is due to the overall enhanced properties of nanomaterials due to size effects, surface effects …
Y Oshima, A Onga, K Takayanagi - Physical review letters, 2003 - APS
Gold nanowires were synthesized at 150 K by electron beam thinning of a gold thin foil in an UHV electron microscope. The gold nanowires were found to have a helical multishell …
A Smogunov, A Dal Corso, E Tosatti - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2004 - APS
The scattering-based approach for calculating the ballistic conductance of open quantum systems is generalized to deal with magnetic transition metals as described by ultrasoft …
K Hirose, T Ono, Y Fujimoto, S Tsukamoto - 2005 - books.google.com
With cutting-edge materials and minute electronic devices being produced by the latest nanoscale fabrication technology, it is essential for scientists and engineers to rely on first …