Phase-transition plasticity response in uniaxially compressed silicon nanospheres

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 17, 2007, Pages

  Valentini, P ^a   Gerberich, W W ^a   Dumitrica T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; HARDENING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODELING; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PLASTICITY; SILICON;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; UNIAXIAL COMPRESSION;

NANOSPHERES;

EID: 35548944454     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.175701     Document Type: Article

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