Single crystal growth via a grain rotation mechanism within amorphous matrix

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 15, 2008, Pages

  Fang, Jixiang ^a,c   Kong, Peng ^a   Ding, Bingjun ^a   Song, Xiaoping ^a   Han, Yong ^b   Hahn, Horst ^c   Gleiter, Herbert ^c  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DYNAMICS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN GROWTH; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOCRYSTALLINE ALLOYS; POWDERS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; ROTATION; SILVER;

AMORPHOUS; AMORPHOUS FORMATIONS; AMORPHOUS MATRIXES; CRYSTALLINE NANOSTRUCTURES; GRAIN ROTATIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; SINGLE CRYSTAL GROWTHS;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 54149094159     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3001576     Document Type: Article

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