Visualizing dislocation nucleation by indenting colloidal crystals

Nature

Volumn 440, Issue 7082, 2006, Pages 319-323

  Schall, Peter ^a,c   Cohen, Itai ^a,b,d   Weitz, David A ^a,b   Spaepen, Frans ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; FREQUENCIES; INDENTATION; SINGLE CRYSTALS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CONTINUUM MODELS; DISLOCATION NUCLEATION; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS;

NUCLEATION;

NUCLEATION;

ARTICLE; COLLOID; CRYSTAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; LASER DIFFRACTION; NANOCRYSTAL; NANOPARTICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 33645034736     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04557     Document Type: Article

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