Structural Dependence of Grain Boundary Resistivity in Copper Nanowires
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- Title
- Structural Dependence of Grain Boundary Resistivity in Copper Nanowires
- Authors
- Kim, TH; Nicholson, DM; Zhang, XG; Evans, BM; Kulkarni, NS; Kenik, EA; Meyer, HM; Radhakrishnan, B; Li, AP
- Date Issued
- 2011-08
- Publisher
- Japan Society of Applied Physics
- Abstract
- We report the direct measurement of individual grain boundary (GB) resistances and the critical role of GB structure in the increased resistivity in copper nanowires. By measuring both intra-and inter-grain resistance with a four-probe scanning tunneling microscope, large resistance jumps are revealed owing to successive scattering across high-angle random GBs, while the resistance changes at twin and other coincidence boundaries are negligibly small. The impurity distributions in the nanowires are characterized in correlating to the microstructures. The resistance of high symmetry coincidence GBs and the impurity contributions are then calculated using a first-principle method which confirms that the coincidence GBs have orders of magnitude smaller resistance than the high-angle random GBs. (C) 2011 The Japan Society of Applied Physics
- Keywords
- ELECTRICAL-RESISTIVITY; POLYCRYSTALLINE FILMS; EXTERNAL SURFACES; REFLECTION; CONDUCTIVITY; SCATTERING; NANOFILMS; TRANSPORT; METALS; MODEL
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/15110
- DOI
- 10.1143/JJAP.50.08LB09
- ISSN
- 0021-4922
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 50, no. 8, 2011-08
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