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Kozlova, T. (author)
Electromigration is a process in which a metallic contact line is thinned by passing a current through it; which occurs due to a gradual displacement of atoms, ultimately leading to destruction of the wire. Despite the active investigations on electromigration for over fifty years, until now there is no general theory of the process and many...
doctoral thesis 2015
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Kozlova, T. (author), Rudneva, M. (author), Zandbergen, H.W. (author)
We investigated the reversible electromigration in Pd–Pt nanobridges by means of in situ electron microscopy. Real-time nanometer-scale imaging with scanning transmission electron microscopy was used to determine the material transport. For high current densities (3–5 × 107 A cm?2), material transport occurs from the cathode towards the anode...
journal article 2013
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Rudneva, M. (author), Gao, B. (author), Prins, F. (author), Xu, Q. (author), Van der Zant, H.S.J. (author), Zandbergen, H.W. (author)
In situ transmission electron microscopy was performed on the electromigration in platinum (Pt) nanowires (14 nm thick, 200 nm wide, and 300 nm long) with and without feedback control. Using the feedback control mode, symmetric electrodes are obtained and the gap usually forms at the center of the Pt nanowire. Without feedback control,...
journal article 2013
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Rudneva, M. (author)
In the present thesis the combination of real-time electricalmeasurements on nano-sampleswith simultaneous examination by transmission electron microscope (TEM) is discussed. Application of an electrical current may lead to changes in the samples thus the possibility to correlate such changes with the corresponding I-V measurements is very...
doctoral thesis 2013
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Heersche, H.B. (author), Lientschnig, G. (author), O'Neill, K. (author), Van der Zant, H.S.J. (author), Zandbergen, H.W. (author)
The authors imaged electromigration-induced nanogap formation in situ by transmission electron microscopy. Real-time video recordings show that edge voids form near the cathode side. The polycrystalline gold wires narrow down until a single-grain boundary intersects the constriction along which the breaking continues. During the last 50?ms of...
journal article 2007
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