Visualizing the Electron Wind Force in the Elastic Regime.
Nano Lett
; 21(24): 10172-10177, 2021 12 22.
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With continued scaling toward higher component densities, integrated circuits (ICs) contain ever greater lengths of nanowire that are vulnerable to failure via electromigration. Previously, plastic electromigration driven by the "electron wind" has been observed, but not the elastic response to the wind force itself. Here we describe mapping, via electron energy-loss spectroscopy, the density of a lithographically defined aluminum nanowire with sufficient precision to determine both its temperature and its internal pressure. An electrical current density of 108 A/cm2 produces Joule heating, tension upwind, and compression downwind. Surprisingly, the pressure returns to its ambient value well inside the wire, where the current density is still high. This spatial discrepancy points to physics that are not captured by a classical "wind force" model and to new opportunities for optimizing electromigration-resistant IC design.
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