Asperity contacts at the nanoscale: Comparison of Ru and Au

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 104, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Fortini, Andrea ^a   Mendelev, Mikhail I ^b   Buldyrev, Sergey ^a   Srolovitz, David ^a  

^a YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMS; ELASTIC CONSTANTS; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PLASTICS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; RUTHENIUM; SEPARATION;

A STABLES; ASPERITY CONTACTS; BRITTLE PROCESSES; EMBEDDED ATOM METHODS; HOMOLOGOUS TEMPERATURES; INTERATOMIC POTENTIALS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM SWITCHES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NANOSCALE; SINGLE ASPERITIES; SINGLE ATOMS; STACKING FAULT ENERGIES; TWO MATERIALS;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 54049123279     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2991301     Document Type: Article

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