Nucleation and growth of metal whiskers
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2013-09-24 v3
Abstract
The existence of metal whiskers is attributed to the energy gain due to electrostatic polarization of needle shaped metal filaments in the electric field induced by surface imperfections: contaminations, oxide states, etc. A proposed theory provides closed form expressions for the whisker nucleation and growth rates, explains the range of whisker parameters and effects of external biasing. It predicts a well controlled whisker growth on any metal surface via generating surface plasmon polariton excitations.
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@article{arxiv.1309.3822,
title = {Nucleation and growth of metal whiskers},
author = {Victor Karpov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.3822},
year = {2013}
}
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6 pages, 5 figures