Nano-copper sintered materials have become core materials for high-power packaging due to their excellent electrical/thermal conductivity, but there is a lack of systematic research on the mechanism of their multi-particle atomic-scale coalescence. This study constructed a model of multi-particle nanoparticle copper based on the molecular dynamics and revealed the coalescence behavior by simulating its hot-pressing sintering process. Results demonstrate that temperature-driven dislocation dynamics dominates particle contact evolution, inducing Shockley partial dislocation networks and dislocation entanglement structures. Pressurization promotes pores evolution from interconnected to isolated states. Among them, lattice orientation difference-type pores are harder to bridge than contact-type pores due to kinetic hysteresis. Concurrently, Lomer-Cottrell dislocation locks form. The HCP phase content increases by 10.02%. These findings elucidate the microscopic mechanisms of hot-press sintering in multi-particle systems and provide a theoretical basis for process optimization of nano-sintered materials.
Du等[11]利用旋进电子衍射(Precession electron diffraction,PED)观察到,铜烧结纳米颗粒在垂直于压力方向上的孔洞较小且不规则,而在平行方向上则较大且拉长。这与模拟中观察到的颗粒沿压力方向显著扁平化的现象高度一致。Yan等[12]对铜热压烧结的研究揭示,在30%应变下孔隙塌陷/颗粒扁平化主导变形,同时位错在晶界重组为致密网络。该机制与透射电子显微镜(Transmission electron microscopy,TEM)观测相印证:50%应变下晶粒显著扁平化,位错介导的致密化虽有效降低孔隙率,但受颗粒键合动力学限制,最终仍残留微空隙。上述两篇文献分别从孔隙演化规律和微观变形机制这两个关键层面,为模拟结果的可靠性提供了有力支持。
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