Untiedt, Carlos, Rubio Bollinger, Gabino, Vieira Díaz, Sebastián, Agraït de la Puente, Nicolás
Fabrication and characterization of metallic nanowires
UNTIEDT, C., et al. “Fabrication and characterization of metallic nanowires”. Physical Review B. Vol. 56, No. 4 (15 July 1997). ISSN 0163-1829, pp. 2154-2160
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/25186
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.56.2154
ISSN: 0163-1829 (Print)
Abstract: 
The shape of metallic constrictions of nanoscopic dimensions (necks) formed using a scanning tunneling microscope is shown to depend on the fabrication procedure. Submitting the neck to repeated plastic deformation cycles makes it possible to obtain long necks or nanowires. Point-contact spectroscopy results show that these long necks are quite crystalline, indicating that the repeated cycles of plastic deformation act as a “mechanical annealing” of the neck.
Keywords:Metallic constrictions, Necks, Nanowires
American Physical Society
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