Simulation of Joule annealing in nanoscale Pt wires

Computational Materials Science

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3043-3049

  McGarrity, K S ^a,b   Gao, B ^a,c   Thijssen, J M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electromigration; Finite differences; Grain boundaries; Thermal annealing

Indexed keywords

ARRHENIUS; FINITE DIFFERENCE; GOLD NANOWIRE; HEAT EQUATION; LOCAL SOLUTION; MONTE CARLO; NANO SCALE; OHMIC RESISTORS; PLATINUM NANOWIRES; POLYCRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE; REVERSIBLE CHANGE; SOURCE TERMS; THERMAL-ANNEALING;

ANNEALING; ELECTROMIGRATION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; HEATING; JOULE HEATING; NANOWIRES; PLATINUM;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

EID: 79959502293     PISSN: 09270256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2011.05.026     Document Type: Article

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