Authors: Bid, Aveek; Bora, Achyut; Raychaudhuri, A.K.

Source: Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Volume 7, Number 6, June 2007 , pp. 1867-1870(4)

Publisher: American Scientific Publishers

Abstract:

We have studied the resistance of metallic nanowires (silver and copper) as a function of the wire diameter in the temperature range 4.2 K-300 K. The nanowires with an average diameter of 15 nm-200 nm and length 6 μm were electrochemically deposited using polycarbonate membranes as template from AgNO₃ and CuSO₄, respectively. The wires after growth were removed from the membranes by dissolving the polymer in dichloromethane and their crystalline nature confirmed by XRD and TEM studies. The TEM study establishes that the nanowires are single crystalline and can have twin in them. The resistivity data was fitted to Bloch-Gruneisen theorem with the values of Debye temperature and the electron-acoustic phonon coupling constant as the two fit variables. The value of the Debye temperature obtained for the Ag wires was seen to match well with that of the bulk while for Cu wires a significant reduction was observed. The observed increase in resistivity with a decrease in the wire diameter could be explained as due to diffuse surface scattering of the conduction electrons.

Keywords: NANOWIRE; RESISTIVITY; BLOCH-GRUNEISEN

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/jnn.2007.732

Publication date: 2007-06-01

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