Mechanical annealing and source-limited deformation in submicrometre- diameter Nicrystals

Nature Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 115-119

  Shan, Z W ^a,b   Mishra, Raja K ^c   Syed Asif, S A ^b   Warren, Oden L ^b   Minor, Andrew M ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Bruker Corporation   (United States)

^c GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DEFORMATION; SINGLE CRYSTALS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DIAMETERS; METALLIC PILLARS; NANOCOMPRESSION; SUBMICROMETRE;

NICKEL;

EID: 38549085886     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2085     Document Type: Article

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