T. Kizuka et N. Tanaka, DYNAMIC HIGH-RESOLUTION ELECTRON-MICROSCOPY OF DIFFUSION BONDING BETWEEN ZINC-OXIDE NANOCRYSTALLITES AT AMBIENT-TEMPERATURE, Philosophical magazine letters, 69(3), 1994, pp. 135-139
The process of diffusion bonding between nanometre-sized zinc oxide cr
ystallites in vacuum-deposited films is observed dynamically at atomic
resolution by transmission electron microscopy for the first time. It
is found that the nanocrystallites, having clean surfaces, bond witho
ut any solders at ambient temperature, and that neck growth proceeds i
nstantly after contact under electron irradiation.