Surface energy driven agglomeration and growth of single crystal metal wires

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2011-03
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Jung, Soon Jung
Lutz, Tarek
Boese, Markus
Holmes, Justin D.
Boland, John J.
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American Chemical Society
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10.1021/nl104357e
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Abstract
We introduce a novel wire growth technique that involves simply heating a multilayer film specifically designed to take advantage of the different surface energies of the substrate and film components. In all cases the high surface energy component is extruded as a single crystal nanowire. Moreover we demonstrate that patterning the bilayer film generates localized surface agglomeration waves during the anneal that can be exploited to position the grown wires. Examples of Au and Cu nanowire growth are presented, and the generalization of this method to other systems is discussed.
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Growth method , Single crystal , Au wire , Cu wire , Surface energy , Agglomeration
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Jung, S.J., Lutz, T., Boese, M., Holmes, J. D., Boland, J. J. (2011) 'Surface energy driven agglomeration and growth of single crystal metal wires'. Nano Letters, 11 :1294-1299. doi:10.1021/nl104357e
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http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl104357e
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https://hdl.handle.net/10468/852
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© 2011, American Chemical Society. This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Nano Letters, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher.To access the final edited and published work see http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/nl104357e