Modeling and tackling resistivity scaling in metal nanowires
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2016-06-23 v1
Abstract
A self-consistent analytical solution of the multi-subband Boltzmann transport equation with collision term describing grain boundary and surface roughness scattering is presented to study the resistivity scaling in metal nanowires. The different scattering mechanisms and the influence of their statistical parameters are analyzed. Instead of a simple power law relating the height or width of a nanowire to its resistivity, the picture appears to be more complicated due to quantum-mechanical scattering and quantization effects, especially for surface roughness scattering.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.1509.04097,
title = {Modeling and tackling resistivity scaling in metal nanowires},
author = {Kristof Moors and Bart Sorée and Wim Magnus},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.04097},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
6 pages, 5 figures