Singular grain boundaries in alumina and their roughening transition

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 603-11

  Park, Chan Woo ^a   Yoon, Duk Yong ^b   Blendell, John E ^c   Handwerker, Carol A ^c  

^a Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; SINGLE CRYSTALS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ROUGHENING TRANSITIONS;

ALUMINA;

EID: 0037389915     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.2003.tb03347.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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