Influence of grain boundaries on the vibrational properties of silver nanowires

H. F. Zhan, Y. T. Gu, C. Yan, Prasad K. D. V. Yarlagadda

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Abstract

![CDATA[Metal and semiconductor nanowires (NWs) have been widely employed as the building blocks of the nanoelectromechanical systems, which usually acted a resonant beam. Recent researches reported that nanowires are often polycrystalline, which contains grain boundaries (GBs) that transect the whole nanowire into a bamboo like structure. Based on the larger-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, a comprehensive investigation of the influence from grain boundaries on the vibrational properties of doubly clamped Ag NWs is conducted. It is found that, the presence of grain boundary will result in significant energy dissipation during the resonance of polycrystalline NWs, which leads a great deterioration to the quality factor. Further investigation reveals that the energy dissipation is originated from the plastic deformation of polycrystalline NWs in the form of the nucleation of partial dislocations or the generation of micro stacking faults around the GBs and the micro stacking faults is found to keep almost intact during the whole vibration process. Moreover, it is observed that the closer of the grain boundary getting to the regions with the highest strain state, the more energy dissipation will be resulted from the plastic deformation. In addition, either the increase of the number of grain boundaries or the decrease of the distance between the grain boundary and the highest strain state region is observed to induce a lower first resonance frequency. This work sheds lights on the better understanding of the mechanical properties of polycrystalline NWs, which benefits the increasing utilities of NWs in diverse nano-electronic devices.]]
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computational Methods (ICCM 2012), 25 - 28 November 2012, Gold Coast, Australia
PublisherQueensland University of Technology
Number of pages8
Publication statusPublished - 2012
EventInternational Conference on Computational Methods -
Duration: 25 Nov 2012 → …

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Computational Methods
Period25/11/12 → …

Keywords

  • grain boundaries
  • nanowires
  • vibration
  • molecular dynamics

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