Boland and colleagues showed for the first time that, in films of
nanocrystalline copper just tens of nanometers thick, peaks and dips appear where misaligned grains meet.
In the type of copper the researchers studied,
nanocrystalline copper, the grains are particularly small; each has around 1 million atoms.
Not exact matches
Nanocrystalline metals such as
copper are widely used as electrical contacts and interconnects within integrated circuits.