Estudo da evolução dinamica de nanofios de cobre e ouro / Study of dynamical evolution of cooper and gold

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2006

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Metallic nanowires have been a subject of study for at least ½fteen years. The interest in these new materials is increasing continuously due to the possibility of using them as metallic contacts in electronic nanodevices. For example, between two tips of very thin nanowires, it is possible to insert small structures, such as carbon buckyballs or small organic molecules, with the possibility of use as devices. The production and evolution of metal nanowires have been investigated experimentally with many techniques, the high resolution transmission electron microscopy one of the most important. While gold has received a lot of attention, copper which is also an important metal has had few works devoted to it. In this work we study the dynamical evolution of copper nanowires under stress along the [111], [110] and [100] crystallographic directions of elongation until their ruptures. In order to compare some results between copper and gold, we have performed the same study for gold in the [111] and [110] directions, to elucidate diÿerences and similarities between these metals. The method used was the Tight-Binding Molecular Dynamics (TBMD). The TBMD calculations have been show to be an excellent tool to study evolution of gold nanowires. This method is more accurate than empirical potential methods since it explicitly solves for the electronic structure at each time step, and it is much faster than first principles method. We present the dynamical evolution of the structures, the formation of structural defects, tips, linear atomic chains and the forces sustained by the nanowires. We observed that the forces sustained by the nanowires have a sawtooth behavior and that the copper nanowires form linear atomic chains which are much smaller than the chains formed in gold nanowires. We observed also, helicoidal structures and compare the structural geometry between our nanowires and images obtained from microscopy. Our results are in good agreement with the experimental results

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dinamica molecular ouro nanowires gold nanofios cobre cooper molecular dynamics

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