Observation of electronic and atomic shell effects in gold nanowires

Details Observation of electronic and atomic shell effects in gold nanowires Observation of electronic and atomic shell effects in gold nanowires

2004-01-19

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0401330v2

Phys. Rev. B 70 (2004) 073401

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.70.073401

The formation of gold nanowires in vacuum at room temperature reveals a periodic spectrum of exceptionally stable diameters. This is identified as shell structure similar to that which was recently discovered for alkali metals at low temperatures. The gold nanowires present two competing `magic' series of stable diameters, one governed by electronic structure and the other by the atomic packing.

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