Current-driven nanowire formation on surfaces of crystalline conducting substrates

Kumar, Ashish; Dasgupta, Dwaipayan; Dimitrakopoulos, Christos; Maroudas, Dimitrios

doi:10.1063/1.4949333

Title: Current-driven nanowire formation on surfaces of crystalline conducting substrates

Journal Article · Wed May 11 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Applied Physics Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4949333· OSTI ID:1471102

Kumar, Ashish ^[1];

^[1];

^[1]; Maroudas, Dimitrios ^[1]

Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (United States). Dept. of Chemical Engineering

The formation and precise manipulation of nanoscale features by controlling macroscopic forces is essential to advancing nanotechnology. Toward this end, we report here a theoretical study on formation of nanowires with precisely controlled widths, starting from single-layer conducting islands on crystalline conducting substrates under the controlled action of macroscopic forcing provided by an externally applied electric field that drives island edge electromigration. Numerical simulations based on an experimentally validated model and supported by linear stability theory show that large-size islands undergo a current-induced fingering instability, leading to nanowire formation after finger growth. Depending on the substrate surface crystallographic orientation, necking instabilities after fingering lead to the formation of multiple parallel nanowires per island. In all cases, the axis of the formed nanowires is aligned with the direction of the externally applied electric field. The nanowires have constant widths, on the order of 10 nm, which can be tuned by controlling the externally applied electric field strength. In conclusion, our findings have important implications for developing future lithography-free nanofabrication and nanoelectronic patterning techniques.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-07ER46407

OSTI ID:: 1471102

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1252582

Journal Information:: Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 108, Issue 19; ISSN 0003-6951

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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