Melting of metallic electrodes and their flowing through a carbon nanotube channel within a device

Rujia Zou; Zhenyu Zhang; Qian Liu; Kaibing Xu; Aijiang Lu; Junqing Hu; Quan Li; Yoshio Bando; Dmitri Golberg

doi:10.1002/adma.201300257

Melting of metallic electrodes and their flowing through a carbon nanotube channel within a device

Adv Mater. 2013 May 21;25(19):2693-9. doi: 10.1002/adma.201300257. Epub 2013 Apr 5.

Authors

Rujia Zou¹, Zhenyu Zhang, Qian Liu, Kaibing Xu, Aijiang Lu, Junqing Hu, Quan Li, Yoshio Bando, Dmitri Golberg

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China.

PMID: 23559074
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201300257

Abstract

Evidence is presented of a new cause of Joule heating within a simple electronic device involving a multiwalled carbon nanotube (CNT) mounted on two metal electrodes forming an electrical circuit. This time-resolved, high-resolution in situ observation of metal electrode material melting and its flow driven by the thermomigration and electromigration forces through the CNT channel sheds an additional light on the effects affecting the real electrical performance of the CNT-based devices.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Electrodes*
Equipment Design
Equipment Failure Analysis
Hot Temperature
Materials Testing
Metals / chemistry*
Nanotubes, Carbon / chemistry*
Nanotubes, Carbon / ultrastructure
Thermal Conductivity

Substances

Metals
Nanotubes, Carbon