The role of carbon contamination in metallic nanowires

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Autor(a) principal: Galvão,Douglas Soares
Data de Publicação: 2004
Outros Autores: Rodrigues,Varlei, Ugarte,Daniel, Legoas,Sergio Benites
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Materials research (São Carlos. Online)
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-14392004000200020
Resumo: Metallic nanowires have attracted much attention in the last years due to new phenomena such as quantum conductance and the existence of unexpected long interatomic distances attaining 0.3-0.5 nm. These large distances represented a challenge for physical interpretation. In this work we present experimental data from high-resolution transmission electron microscopy and results from ab initio calculations for suspended gold chains and show that these large distances can be easily explained by the presence of carbon atoms as contaminants. In principle the present conclusions can be also applied to other metallic nanowires (such as Ag and Pt) whose structures also present large interatomic distances.
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title The role of carbon contamination in metallic nanowires
spellingShingle The role of carbon contamination in metallic nanowires
Galvão,Douglas Soares
gold nanowires
quantum conductance
carbon contamination
title_short The role of carbon contamination in metallic nanowires
title_full The role of carbon contamination in metallic nanowires
title_fullStr The role of carbon contamination in metallic nanowires
title_full_unstemmed The role of carbon contamination in metallic nanowires
title_sort The role of carbon contamination in metallic nanowires
author Galvão,Douglas Soares
author_facet Galvão,Douglas Soares
Rodrigues,Varlei
Ugarte,Daniel
Legoas,Sergio Benites
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author2 Rodrigues,Varlei
Ugarte,Daniel
Legoas,Sergio Benites
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author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Galvão,Douglas Soares
Rodrigues,Varlei
Ugarte,Daniel
Legoas,Sergio Benites
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv gold nanowires
quantum conductance
carbon contamination
topic gold nanowires
quantum conductance
carbon contamination
description Metallic nanowires have attracted much attention in the last years due to new phenomena such as quantum conductance and the existence of unexpected long interatomic distances attaining 0.3-0.5 nm. These large distances represented a challenge for physical interpretation. In this work we present experimental data from high-resolution transmission electron microscopy and results from ab initio calculations for suspended gold chains and show that these large distances can be easily explained by the presence of carbon atoms as contaminants. In principle the present conclusions can be also applied to other metallic nanowires (such as Ag and Pt) whose structures also present large interatomic distances.
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