Surface scattering effect on the electrical resistivity of single crystalline silver nanowires self-assembled on vicinal Si (001)

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Huang, Qiaojian ^a   Lilley, Carmen M ^a   Bode, Matthias ^b  

^a 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AG NANOWIRES; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ELECTRON SURFACE; GRAIN BOUNDARY SCATTERING; NANO-SCALE MATERIALS; NANOWIRE SURFACE; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SI(0 0 1); SILICON SUBSTRATES; SILVER NANOWIRES; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; SURFACE SCATTERING; TRAPEZOIDAL GEOMETRY;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; NANOWIRES; PLASMA INTERACTIONS; SCATTERING; SILVER; SURFACES;

ELECTRIC WIRE;

EID: 70249121029     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3216836     Document Type: Article

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