Interplay between stick-slip motion and structural phase transitions in dry sliding friction

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 55, Issue 19, 1997, Pages 12892-12895

  Buldum, A ^a   Ciraci, S ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

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EID: 0012064183     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.55.12892     Document Type: Article

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