Plastic deformation of silicon nitride single crystals

Materials Science and Engineering: A

Volumn 209, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 97-102

  Suematsu, H ^a   Petrovic, J J ^b   Mitchell, I E ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Plastic deformation; Silicon nitride; Single crystals

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPRESSION TESTING; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); HARDNESS TESTING; MORPHOLOGY; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

HARDNESS ANISOTROPY;

SILICON NITRIDE;

EID: 0030149449     PISSN: 09215093     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0921-5093(95)10136-5     Document Type: Article

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