nanofilament

English

Etymology

From nano- +‎ filament.

Noun

nanofilament (plural nanofilaments)

1. A nanoscale filament.
   • 2015, Daniela Carta, Adam Hitchcock, Peter Guttmann, Anna Regoutz, Ali Khiat, Alexantru Serb, Isha Gupta, Themistoklis Prodromakis, “Spatially resolved TiOx phases in RRAM conductive nanofilaments using soft X-ray spectromicroscopy”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     Reduction in metal-oxide thin films has been suggested as the key mechanism responsible for forming conductive nanofilaments within solid-state memory devices, enabling their resistive switching capacity.