Amorphization and anisotropic fracture dynamics during nanoindentation of silicon nitride: A multimillion atom molecular dynamics study

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 77, Issue 26, 2000, Pages 4332-4334

  Walsh, Phillip ^a   Kalia, Rajiv K ^a   Nakano, Aiichiro ^a   Vashishta, Priya ^a   Saini, Subhash ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0007705290     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1328371     Document Type: Article

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