文档介绍：Electrochimica Acta 117 (2014) 120–126
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Self-formed platform for in situ measurement of electrical transport of
individual copper nanowires
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Sangwoo Shin, Hyung Hee Cho
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, 120-749, Korea
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Article history: Exploring electrical transport in a single individual nanowire provides unique opportunities to funda-
Received 10 June 2013
mental research and practical applications in nanowire-based electronics as well as energy applications.
Received in revised form
However, measuring such electrical transport in an individual nanowire generally involves nanowire
19 November 2013
release process followed by electrode patterning steps, which are difficult and tedious tasks. We demon-
Accepted 19 November 2013
strate a simple in situ method for rapid measurement of the electrical transport in a single individual
Available online 3 December 2013
copper nanowire that is grown by template-assisted electrodeposition method. By depositing a thin
metal layer on top of the nanowire template, a single individual nanowire circuit can be easily formed
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in situ by self-limiting the growth of other entire nanowir