Honorable Mention

Category: Technical Difficulty

Thiti Taychatanapat

FE-SEM: Zeiss(1550)-Clark

We assembled ~15 nm Au particles onto our Au wires. We then conducted electromigration studies at room temperature inside the vacuum chamber. From the disappearance of the Au particles during electromigration, we estimate the local temperature when the wire was broken to be > 515 K.

Physics

Advisor        Dan Ralph