Title

Simplified fabrication and electrical analysis of crystalline silver nanowire

Authors

Authors

Y. T. Peng;Q. F. Chen

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Appl. Phys. A-Mater. Sci. Process.

Keywords

ARRAYS; Materials Science, Multidisciplinary; Physics, Applied

Abstract

Silver nanowires have been fabricated using electrochemical deposition within the confined nanochannels of anodic alumina membrane on aluminum substrate. The characterization of structure, morphology, and composition indicates that the silver nanowires are uniform with about 50 nm diameter corresponding to the pore diameter of the anodic alumina membrane and almost single crystal with preferred growth along the [111] direction. Electrical measurements at room temperature showed that these silver nanowires were high conductive with a conductivity of approximately 0.13x10(5) S/cm. Also, individual silver nanowires were investigated by measuring current as a function of bias voltage until the point of failure. This study will be very useful for the development of future nanoelectronic devices and circuits that employ Ag nanowires.

Journal Title

Applied Physics a-Materials Science & Processing

Volume

105

Issue/Number

4

Publication Date

1-1-2011

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

841

Last Page

846

WOS Identifier

WOS:000297162000008

ISSN

0947-8396

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