Are surfaces elastically softer or stiffer?

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1940-1942

  Zhou, L G ^a   Huang, Hanchen ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC COORDINATION; ELASTIC DEFORMATION; ELECTRON REDISTRIBUTION; EMBEDDED ATOM METHOD (EAM);

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; POISSON RATIO; STIFFNESS; STRAIN;

SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 1842637219     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1682698     Document Type: Article

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