Superhard nitride-based nanocomposites: Role of interfaces and effect of impurities

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Hao, Shiqiang ^a   Delley, Bernard ^b   Veprek, Stan ^c   Stampfl, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; HARDNESS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NITRIDES; OXYGEN; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TITANIUM NITRIDE;

INTERFACE STRENGTH; POLAR INTERFACE; QUASIBINARY NANOCOMPOSITE; SUPERHARDNESS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33747846329     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.086102     Document Type: Article

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