{
  "id": "cond-mat/9704146",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1997-04-16T16:20:31.000Z",
  "updated": "1997-04-16T16:20:31.000Z",
  "title": "Fabrication and Characterization of Metallic Nanowires",
  "authors": [
    "C. Untiedt",
    "G. Rubio",
    "S. Vieira",
    "N. Agrait"
  ],
  "comment": "8 pages, 10 Postscript figures, accepted in Physical Review B",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevB.56.2154",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall",
    "cond-mat.mtrl-sci"
  ],
  "abstract": "The shape of metallic constrictions of nanoscopic dimensions (necks) formed using a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) is shown to depend on the fabrication procedure. Submitting the neck to repeated plastic deformation cycles makes possible to obtain long necks or nanowires. Point-contact spectroscopy results show that these long necks are quite crystalline, indicating that the repeated cycles of plastic deformation act as a \"mechanical annealing\" of the neck.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1997-04-16T16:20:31.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "metallic nanowires",
      "long necks",
      "characterization",
      "plastic deformation act",
      "point-contact spectroscopy results"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. B"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 8,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}