High-bias stability of monatomic chains

Details High-bias stability of monatomic chains High-bias stability of monatomic chains

2003-11-19

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311439v1

Nanotechnology, vol. 15 (2004) pp. S472 - S478.

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

7 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0957-4484/15/7/055

For the metals Au, Pt and Ir it is possible to form freely suspended monatomic chains between bulk electrodes. The atomic chains sustain very large current densities, but finally fail at high bias. We investigate the breaking mechanism, that involves current-induced heating of the atomic wires and electromigration forces. We find good agreement of the observations for Au based on models due to Todorov and coworkers. The high-bias breaking of atomic chains for Pt can also be described by the models, although here the parameters have not been obtained independently. In the limit of long chains the breaking voltage decreases inversely proportional to the length.

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