Structural transformation, amorphization, and fracture in nanowires: A multimillion-atom molecular dynamics study

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 78, Issue 21, 2001, Pages 3328-3330

  Walsh, Phillip ^a   Li, Wei ^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: 0035927085     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1374237     Document Type: Article

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