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Cultivating Metal Whiskers by Surface Plasmon Polariton Excitation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2016

Vamsi Borra ,
Daniel G. Georgiev  and
Victor G. Karpov
Vamsi Borra*
Affiliation:
Department of EECS, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606-3390, U.S.A.
Daniel G. Georgiev
Affiliation:
Department of EECS, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606-3390, U.S.A.
Victor G. Karpov
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606-3390, U.S.A.
*
*(Email: vborra@eng.utoledo.edu)
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Abstract

This work presents a preliminary experimental study on the possibility to initiate growth of whiskers on the surfaces of some technologically important metals utilizing the enhanced electric field of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs). The results provide evidence that a relatively high concentration of what appear to be whisker nuclei form in the region where SPPs were excited, whereas no such changes are observed on the untreated surface.

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electronic materialnucleation & growthSn
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MRS Advances , Volume 1 , Issue 12: Mechanical Behavior and Failure of Materials , 2016 , pp. 805 - 810
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2016 

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