A new view of the onset of plasticity during the nanoindentation of aluminium

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 697-702

  Minor, Andrew M ^a   Syed Asif, S A ^b   Shan, Zhiwei ^a   Stach, Eric A ^c   Cyrankowski, Edward ^b   Wyrobek, Thomas J ^b   Warren, Oden L ^b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Bruker Corporation   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NATURAL SCIENCES; PLASTICITY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; THIN FILMS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DISLOCATION ACTIVITY; LOAD-DISPLACEMENT; NANOINDENTATION; REAL-TIME IMAGES;

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 33748374711     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1714     Document Type: Article

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