Conductivity size effect of polycrystalline metal nanowires

It is well known that the conductivity of metal nanowires decreases with the wire diameter. This size effect was first studied for metal thin films when the film thickness approaches the electron mean free path. Fuchs & Sondheimer (FS) pointed out that the external surface scattering of the elec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Weihuang Xue, Wenhua Gu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2016-11-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4967198