Wang F, Gao Y, Zhu T, Zhao J. Shock-induced breaking of the nanowire with the dependence of crystallographic orientation and strain rate.
NANOSCALE RESEARCH LETTERS 2011;
6:291. [PMID:
21711854 PMCID:
PMC3211357 DOI:
10.1186/1556-276x-6-291]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2010] [Accepted: 04/05/2011] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
Abstract
The failure of the metallic nanowire has raised concerns due to its applied reliability in nanoelectromechanical system. In this article, the breaking failure is studied for the [100], [110], and [111] single-crystal copper nanowires at different strain rates. The statistical breaking position distributions of the nanowires have been investigated to give the effects of strain rate and crystallographic orientation on micro-atomic fluctuation in the symmetric stretching of the nanowires. When the strain rate is less than 0.26% ps-1, macro-breaking position distributions exhibit the anisotropy of micro-atomic fluctuation. However, when the strain rate is larger than 3.54% ps-1, the anisotropy is not obvious because of strong symmetric shocks.
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