Figure 4
(a) Scanning electron microscopy image of a suspended Au nanowire resting on two 2 µm-wide Si ridges. (b) Mosaic of the Au 222 Laue spot along the nanowire for different loading stages (box size: 200 × 200 pixels on detector). (c) Bending angle along the nanowire calculated from the orientation matrices UB which were inferred from the position and displacement of at least eight Au Laue spots on the detector. (d) Vertical displacement along the nanowire for the different loading stages computed by integration of the bending angle curves shown in (c). |