In this work, I have investigated the properties of metal cluster deposition and ultrathin copper nanowires using atomisitic simulations.
The ionized cluster beam deposition of Al and Cu clusters has been investigated with a classical molecular dynam...
In this work, I have investigated the properties of metal cluster deposition and ultrathin copper nanowires using atomisitic simulations.
The ionized cluster beam deposition of Al and Cu clusters has been investigated with a classical molecular dynamics simulation and the Metropolis Monte?Carlo simulation. The spreading of the cluster has been studied as functions of cluster size and initial cluster energy. When the local area reached the local melting spot on the surface around the impact point of an energetic cluster, during a few ps, intermixing was easily achieved and a good epitaxial film with optimum bulk density was formed. For uniform film growth using a cluster impact, it is necessary to make the local area temperature higher than melting temperature on the surface around the impact point of an energetic cluster.
I also investigated mechanical deformations of Cu{100} nanowires using the steepest-descent method. I simulated the cases of elongation, shearing, rotation and rotated elongation. Before the first yielding nanowires preserve the elastic stage, and after this mechanical deformations proceed in alternating quasi-elastic and yielding stages. In the case of rotation deformation, the torque was inversely proportional to the tension force. It was shown that a nanowire in the case of rotated elongation is deformed more easily than one in cases of both elongation and rotation.
To investigate the cylindrical ultrathin copper nanowires, I performed atomistic simulations using the steepest descent method. The stable structures of the cylindrical ultrathin copper nanowires were multi-shell packs composed of coaxial cylindrical shells with {111}-like surface. The semiclassical orbits in a circle and the circular rolling of triangular network could explain the structures of the cylindrical ultrathin multi-shell copper nanowires. From calculation of the angular correlation function and the radial distribution function for nanowires, and as the diameter of the nanowire increases, the structural properties of nanowires become close to those of the bulk.