Mechanical Properties of Silicon Nanowires
- Authors
- Sohn, Young-Soo; Park, Jinsung; Yoon, Gwonchan; Song, Jiseok; Jee, Sang-Won; Lee, Jung-Ho; Na, Sungsoo; Kwon, Taeyun; Eom, Kilho
- Issue Date
- 1월-2010
- Publisher
- SPRINGER
- Keywords
- Silicon nanowire; Elastic modulus; Nanoindentation; Atomic force microscope
- Citation
- NANOSCALE RESEARCH LETTERS, v.5, no.1, pp.211 - 216
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- NANOSCALE RESEARCH LETTERS
- Volume
- 5
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 211
- End Page
- 216
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/117310
- DOI
- 10.1007/s11671-009-9467-7
- ISSN
- 1931-7573
- Abstract
- Nanowires have been taken much attention as a nanoscale building block, which can perform the excellent mechanical function as an electromechanical device. Here, we have performed atomic force microscope (AFM)-based nanoindentation experiments of silicon nanowires in order to investigate the mechanical properties of silicon nanowires. It is shown that stiffness of nanowires is well described by Hertz theory and that elastic modulus of silicon nanowires with various diameters from similar to 100 to similar to 600 nm is close to that of bulk silicon. This implies that the elastic modulus of silicon nanowires is independent of their diameters if the diameter is larger than 100 nm. This supports that finite size effect (due to surface effect) does not play a role on elastic behavior of silicon nanowires with diameter of > 100 nm.
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