First-principles calculations for the elastic properties of nanostructured superhard TiN SixNy superlattices

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Wang, Sanwu ^a   Gudipati, R ^a   Rao, A S ^a   Bostelmann, T J ^a   Shen, Y G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SILICON NITRIDE; TITANIUM NITRIDE;

ELASTIC PROPERTIES;

SUPERLATTICES;

EID: 34548285505     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2775039     Document Type: Article

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