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Proposal for a nanoscale variable resistor/electromechanical transistor
J. Bürki, C. A. Stafford, D. L. Stein
A nanoscale variable resistor consisting of a metal nanowire (active element), a dielectric, and a gate, is proposed. By means of the gate voltage, stochastic transitions between d…
Front propagation into unstable metal nanowires
J. Bürki
Long, cylindrical metal nanowires have recently been observed to form and be stable for seconds at a time at room temperature. Their stability and structural dynamics is well descr…
Discrete thinning dynamics in a continuum model of metallic nanowires
J. Bürki
Transmission electron microscopy experiments have recently observed gold metal nanocylinders to thin down in a discrete manner: A kink--a step of order of one atomic layer--nucleat…
Comment on "Nonlinear current-voltage curves of gold quantum point contacts" [Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 103104 (2005)]
J. Bürki, C. A. Stafford, D. L. Stein
In a recent Letter [Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 103104 (2005)], Yoshida et al. report that nonlinearities in current-voltage curves of gold quantum point contacts occur as a result of a…
Stability of Metal Nanowires at Ultrahigh Current Densities
C. -H. Zhang, J. Bürki, C. A. Stafford
We develop a generalized grand canonical potential for the ballistic nonequilibrium electron distribution in a metal nanowire with a finite applied bias voltage. Coulomb interactio…
Nonlinear Dynamics of Metallic Nanofabrication
J. Bürki
Using concepts from fluid dynamics, a partial differential equation for the shape evolution of a metallic nanowire is derived from a semiclassical energy functional that includes e…