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Three-dimensional interconnected nanowire networks have recently attractednotable attention for the fabrication of new devices for energyharvesting/storage, sensing, catalysis, magnetic and spintronic applicationsand for the design of new hardware neuromorphic computing architectures.However, the complex branching of these nanowire networks makes it challengingto investigate these 3D nanostructured systems theoretically. Here, we presenta theoretical description and simulations of the geometric properties of these3D interconnected nanowire networks with selected characteristics. Our analysisreveals that the nanowire segment length between two crossing zones follows anexponential distribution. This suggests that shorter nanowire segments have amore pronounced influence on the nanowire network properties compared to theirlonger counterparts. Moreover, our observations reveal a homogeneousdistribution in the smallest distance between the cores of two crossingnanowires. The results are highly reproducible and unaffected by changes in thenanowire network characteristics. Finally, densities of interconnected segmentsup to 10$^{13}$ cm$^{-2}$ can be achieved for 22-$\mu$m-thick nanowire networkswith high packing factors. This has important implications for neuromorphiccomputing applications, suggesting that the realization of 10$^{14}$interconnections, which corresponds to the approximate number of synapticconnections in the human brain, is achievable with a nanowire network of about10 cm$^{2}$.

Geometrical properties of 3D crossed nanowire networks