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Applied Physics Letters
Article . 2007 . Peer-reviewed
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Feedback controlled electromigration in four-terminal nanojunctions

Authors: Wu, Zheng-Ming; Steinacher, Michael; Huber, Roman; Calame, Michel; van der Molen, Sense Jan; Schonenberger, Christian;

Feedback controlled electromigration in four-terminal nanojunctions

Abstract

The authors have developed a fast, yet highly reproducible method to fabricate metallic electrodes with nanometer separation using electromigration (EM). They employ four terminal instead of two-terminal devices in combination with an analog feedback to maintain the voltage U over the junction constant. After the initialization phase (U≲0.2V), during which the temperature T increases by 80–150°C, EM sets in shrinking the wire locally. This quickly leads to a transition from the diffusive to a quasiballistic regime (0.2V≲U≲0.6V). At the end of this second regime, a gap forms (U≳0.6V). Remarkably, controlled electromigration is still possible in the quasiballistic regime.

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Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics, Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall), FOS: Physical sciences

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