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Volume 103, Number 4, August 2013
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| Article Number | 48002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/103/48002 | |
| Published online | 03 September 2013 | |
Formation of gold nanocontacts in an ultrahigh vacuum transmission electron microscope: A kinetic Monte Carlo simulation
1 Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University - 119991, Russian Federation
2 Faculty of Chemistry, Moscow State University - 119991, Russian Federation
Received: 15 April 2013
Accepted: 7 August 2013
The effective method for the simulation of self-organization of metal nanocontacts produced in an ultrahigh vacuum transmission electron microscope has been designed. In the framework of this method the main stages of nanocontact formation have been determined. The basic diffusion events which are responsible for the shape of nanocontacts and the time of their formation have been outlined. The self-organization of nanocontacts with different orientation relative to the base fcc lattice has been studied. The results of our simulations are in a good agreement with experimental data.
PACS: 81.07.Lk – Nanocontacts / 61.46.-w – Structure of nanoscale materials / 66.30.Pa – Diffusion in nanoscale solids
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