Investigation on the effect of atomic defects on the breaking behaviors of gold nanowires

• Main Authors: Wang, Fenying, Sun, Wei, Wang, Hongbo, Zhao, Jianwei, Kiguchi, Manabu, Sun, Changqing
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95992; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/11383
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The mechanical properties and breaking behaviors of the [100]-oriented single-crystal gold nanowires containing a set of defect ratios have been studied at different temperatures using molecular dynamics simulations. The size of the nanowire is 10a × 10a × 30a (a stands for lattice constant, 0.408 n...