Influence of interdiffusion on the electrical conductivity of multilayered metal films

• Authors: Leonid Dekhtyaruk
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The annealing-time dependence of the electrical conductivity of multilayered single-crystal and polycrystalline metal films has been analyzed theoretically within the frame of the semi-classical approach. It is demonstrated that changes in the electrical conductivity which are caused by the diffusion annealing allow for investigating the processes of the bulk and grain-boundary diffusion, and for estimating the coefficients of the diffusion. The electrical conductivity was calculated and the numerical analysis of the diffusion-annealing time dependence was performed at various parameters.

Keywords

EN

Multilayered films; conductivity; grain boundary diffusion; 73.50.Bk; 73.61.-r

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Physics
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 73-86

Dates

published

1 - 3 - 2006

online

1 - 3 - 2006

Contributors

author

Leonid Dekhtyaruk

• Physical-Technical Faculty, Sumy State University, R.-Corsakova, 2, 40007, Sumy, Ukraine

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1007/s11534-005-0007-5