Mechanical, Electrical, and Magnetic Properties of Ni Nanocontacts
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2009-06-18 v1
Abstract
The dynamic deformation upon stretching of Ni nanowires as those formed with mechanically controllable break junctions or with a scanning tunneling microscope is studied both experimentally and theoretically. Molecular dynamics simulations of the breaking process are performed. In addition, and in order to compare with experiments, we also compute the transport properties in the last stages before failure using the first-principles implementation of Landauer's formalism included in our transport package ALACANT.
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@article{arxiv.0906.3244,
title = {Mechanical, Electrical, and Magnetic Properties of Ni Nanocontacts},
author = {M. R. Calvo and M. J. Caturla and D. Jacob and C. Untiedt and J. J. Palacios},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.3244},
year = {2009}
}
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5 pages, 6 figures