Multiple grains in nanocrystals: Effect of initial shape and size on transformed structures under pressure

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 20, 2004, Pages

  Kodiyalam, Sanjay ^a   Kalia, Rajiv K ^b   Nakano, Aiichiro ^b   Vashishta, Priya ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DEFORMATION; GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; PRESSURE EFFECTS; STRAIN; X RAY ANALYSIS;

DOMAIN ORIENTATIONS; NANOCRYSTALS; NONUNIFORM DEFORMATIONS; STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 18744373431     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.203401     Document Type: Article

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