Electron microscopy of electrochemically deposited copper nanowires

X. Zhao; Y. L. Chiu; I. P. Jones

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/371/1/012081

Electron microscopy of electrochemically deposited copper nanowires

X. Zhao^*, Y. L. Chiu, I. P. Jones

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Metallurgy and Materials

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Abstract

Copper nanowires have been synthesized using a direct-current electrochemical deposition method with current densities down to 1 mA/cm ² on a honeycomb anodic aluminium oxide template. A high pore-filling rate was achieved on the template and uniform arrays of nanowires with diameter of 60-80 nm were obtained. This paper reports SEM observations of the morphology of the deposits and cross-sectional TEM observations of the template and deposited nanowires. The template formation and the nanowire growth mechanism will be discussed in the light of the microscopy observations.

Original language	English
Article number	012081
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume	371
Early online date	2 Jul 2012
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/371/1/012081
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	Electron Microscopy and Analysis Group Conference 2011, EMAG 2011 - Birmingham, United Kingdom Duration: 6 Sept 2011 → 9 Sept 2011

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Electron microscopy of electrochemically deposited copper nanowires

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