Co-reporter:Jianlei Cui, Barayavuga Theogene, Xuewen Wang, Xuesong Mei, Wenjun Wang, Kedian Wang
Applied Surface Science 2016 Volume 378() pp:57-62
Publication Date(Web):15 August 2016
DOI:10.1016/j.apsusc.2016.03.148
Highlights
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The temperature and distance have a great impact on joining effect without solders.
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At high temperature, Ag atoms are disordered and the atomic queues become to distort.
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When the distance is large, the Ag nanowires are not connected at any temperature.
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When the distance is small and the temperature is low, Ag NWs on the Si substrate can be obtained relatively good nanoconnection.
Co-reporter:Jianlei Cui, Lijun Yang, Liang Zhou, and Yang Wang
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2014 Volume 6(Issue 3) pp:2044
Publication Date(Web):January 6, 2014
DOI:10.1021/am405114n
The miniaturization of electronics devices into the nanometer scale is indispensable for next-generation semi-conductor technology. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are considered to be the promising candidates for future interconnection wires. To study the carbon nanotubes interconnection during nanosoldering, the melting process of nanosolder and nanosoldering process between single-walled carbon nanotubes are simulated with molecular dynamics method. As the simulation results, the melting point of 2 nm silver solder is about 605 K because of high surface energy, which is below the melting temperature of Ag bulk material. In the nanosoldering process simulations, Ag atoms may be dragged into the nanotubes to form different connection configuration, which has no apparent relationship with chirality of SWNTs. The length of core filling nanowires structure has the relationship with the diameter, and it does not become longer with the increasing diameter of SWNT. Subsequently, the dominant mechanism of was analyzed. In addition, as the heating temperature and time, respectively, increases, more Ag atoms can enter the SWNTs with longer length of Ag nanowires. And because of the strong metal bonds, less Ag atoms can remain with the tight atomic structures in the gap between SWNT and SWNT. The preferred interconnection configurations can be achieved between SWNT and SWNT in this paper.Keywords: carbon nanotube; core filling nanowires; interconnection; molecular dynamics; nanoscale soldering; silver nanosolder;
Co-reporter:Jianlei Cui, Lijun Yang, Yang Wang
Applied Surface Science 2013 Volume 284() pp:392-396
Publication Date(Web):1 November 2013
DOI:10.1016/j.apsusc.2013.07.110
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The nanoscale soldering process is accomplished through the silver nanoparticles melting and bunching up in a larger nano-mound.
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If the nanoparticles are few, the splitting phenomenon of nano-droplet exists in the interconnection configuration.
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If the number of the deposited nanoparticles is large, the nano-mound can completely wrap the interconnection point without splitting phenomenon.
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The formation of interconnection configuration depends on the intricate interaction among carbon nanotubes, nanoparticles and substrate.