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Pulsed-Laser Induced Dewetting Of Metallic Nanostructures, Christopher Aidan Hartnett
Pulsed-Laser Induced Dewetting Of Metallic Nanostructures, Christopher Aidan Hartnett
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation explores the fluid dynamics of nano and microscale liquid metal filaments, with an emphasis on experimentally investigating the influences and causes of filament breakup and metallic nanostructure formation. Understanding and manipulating the liquid state properties of materials, especially metals, have the potential to advance the development of future technology, particularly nanoscale technology. The combination of top-down nanofabrication techniques with bottom-up, intrinsic self-assembly mechanisms are a powerful fusion, because it permits new and unusual nanostructures to be created, whilst revealing interesting nanoscale physics.
In fluid dynamics, wetting and dewetting is the spontaneous natural process that occurs when a liquid …