Statistical mechanics of melting mediated by two types of defects

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 372, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1109-1113

  Liu, Kejia ^a   Chen, Huifen ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Dislocation; Phase transition; Surface melting

Indexed keywords

DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); LATTICE THEORY; MELTING; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POINT DEFECTS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

DISLOCATION PAIRS; FIRST-ORDER PHASE TRANSITIONS; MELTING THEORY; METALLIC CRYSTALS; SURFACE MELTING; THERMODYNAMIC FUNCTIONS;

TEMPERATURE;

EID: 38649089807     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2007.09.002     Document Type: Article

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