Direct fabrication of zero-and one-dimensional metal nanocrystals by thermally assisted electromigration

Jong Min Yuk; Kwanpyo Kim; Zonghoon Lee; Masashi Watanabe; A. Zettl; Tae Whan Kim; Young Soo No; Won Kook Choi; Jeong Yong Lee

doi:10.1021/nn901674p

Direct fabrication of zero-and one-dimensional metal nanocrystals by thermally assisted electromigration

Jong Min Yuk, Kwanpyo Kim, Zonghoon Lee, Masashi Watanabe, A. Zettl, Tae Whan Kim, Young Soo No, Won Kook Choi, Jeong Yong Lee

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Abstract

Zero-and one-dimensional metal nanocrystals were successfully fabricated with accurate control in size, shape, and position on semiconductor surfaces by using a novel in situ fabrication method of the nanocrystal with a biasing tungsten tip in transmission electron microscopy. The dominant mechanism of nanocrystal formation was identified mainly as local Joule heating-assisted electromigration through the direct observation of formation and growth processes of the nanocrystal. This method was applied to extracting metal atoms with an exceedingly faster growth rate (∼10⁵ atoms/s) from a metal-oxide thin film to form a metal nanocrystal with any desired size and position. By real-time observation of the microstructure and concurrent electrical measurements, it was found that the nanostructure formation can be completely controlled into various shapes such as zero-dimensional nanodots and one-dimensional nanowires/nanorods.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2999-3004
Number of pages	6
Journal	ACS Nano
Volume	4
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/nn901674p
Publication status	Published - 2010 Jun 22

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Yuk, J. M., Kim, K., Lee, Z., Watanabe, M., Zettl, A., Kim, T. W., No, Y. S., Choi, W. K., & Lee, J. Y. (2010). Direct fabrication of zero-and one-dimensional metal nanocrystals by thermally assisted electromigration. ACS Nano, 4(6), 2999-3004. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn901674p

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