An ab initio core-shell model is proposed to evaluate the surface effect in bending nanowires,in which the elastic modulus depends on the surface relaxation and deformation induced by external loading.By using first-p...An ab initio core-shell model is proposed to evaluate the surface effect in bending nanowires,in which the elastic modulus depends on the surface relaxation and deformation induced by external loading.By using first-principles calculations based on the density functional theory(DFT),the surface and bulk properties are calculated for Ag,Pb,and Si nanowires.The obtained theoretical predictions of the effective Young’s modulus of nanowires agree well with the experimental data,which shows that the fixed-fixed nanowire is stiffened and the cantilevered nanowire is softened as the characteristic size of the cross section decreases.Furthermore,the contrastive analysis on the two kinds of nanowires demonstrates that increasing the nanowire aspect ratio would enhance the surface effect.The present results could be helpful for understanding the size effect in nanowires and designing nanobeam-based devices in nanoelectromechanical systems(NEMSs).展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.12172293,11872309,and 11802242)the Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China(Nos.2018JM1040 and 2020JM-120)。
文摘An ab initio core-shell model is proposed to evaluate the surface effect in bending nanowires,in which the elastic modulus depends on the surface relaxation and deformation induced by external loading.By using first-principles calculations based on the density functional theory(DFT),the surface and bulk properties are calculated for Ag,Pb,and Si nanowires.The obtained theoretical predictions of the effective Young’s modulus of nanowires agree well with the experimental data,which shows that the fixed-fixed nanowire is stiffened and the cantilevered nanowire is softened as the characteristic size of the cross section decreases.Furthermore,the contrastive analysis on the two kinds of nanowires demonstrates that increasing the nanowire aspect ratio would enhance the surface effect.The present results could be helpful for understanding the size effect in nanowires and designing nanobeam-based devices in nanoelectromechanical systems(NEMSs).
