Self-healing in fractured GaAs nanowires
Molecular dynamics simulations are performed to investigate a spontaneous self-healing process in fractured GaAs nanowires with a zinc blende structure. The results show that such self-healing can indeed occur via rebonding of Ga and As atoms across the fracture surfaces, but it can be strongly infl...
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| author | Wang, Jun Lu, Chunsheng Wang, Q. Xiao, P. Ke, F. Bai, Y. Shen, Y. Wang, Y. Chen, B. Liao, X. Gao, H. |
| author_facet | Wang, Jun Lu, Chunsheng Wang, Q. Xiao, P. Ke, F. Bai, Y. Shen, Y. Wang, Y. Chen, B. Liao, X. Gao, H. |
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| description | Molecular dynamics simulations are performed to investigate a spontaneous self-healing process in fractured GaAs nanowires with a zinc blende structure. The results show that such self-healing can indeed occur via rebonding of Ga and As atoms across the fracture surfaces, but it can be strongly influenced by several factors, including wire size, number of healing cycles, temperature, fracture morphology, oriented attachment and atomic diffusion. For example, it is found that the self-healing capacity is reduced by 46% as the lateral dimension of the wire increases from 2.3 to 9.2 nm, and by 64% after 24 repeated cycles of fracture and healing. Other factors influencing the self-healing behavior are also discussed. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-302022019-02-19T05:36:13Z Self-healing in fractured GaAs nanowires Wang, Jun Lu, Chunsheng Wang, Q. Xiao, P. Ke, F. Bai, Y. Shen, Y. Wang, Y. Chen, B. Liao, X. Gao, H. Molecular dynamics simulations are performed to investigate a spontaneous self-healing process in fractured GaAs nanowires with a zinc blende structure. The results show that such self-healing can indeed occur via rebonding of Ga and As atoms across the fracture surfaces, but it can be strongly influenced by several factors, including wire size, number of healing cycles, temperature, fracture morphology, oriented attachment and atomic diffusion. For example, it is found that the self-healing capacity is reduced by 46% as the lateral dimension of the wire increases from 2.3 to 9.2 nm, and by 64% after 24 repeated cycles of fracture and healing. Other factors influencing the self-healing behavior are also discussed. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30202 10.1016/j.actamat.2012.07.013 Pergamon fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Wang, Jun Lu, Chunsheng Wang, Q. Xiao, P. Ke, F. Bai, Y. Shen, Y. Wang, Y. Chen, B. Liao, X. Gao, H. Self-healing in fractured GaAs nanowires |
| title | Self-healing in fractured GaAs nanowires |
| title_full | Self-healing in fractured GaAs nanowires |
| title_fullStr | Self-healing in fractured GaAs nanowires |
| title_full_unstemmed | Self-healing in fractured GaAs nanowires |
| title_short | Self-healing in fractured GaAs nanowires |
| title_sort | self-healing in fractured gaas nanowires |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30202 |