Combining in situ transmission electron microscopy and molecular dynamics computer simulations to reveal the interaction mechanisms of dislocations with stacking-fault tetrahedron in nuclear materials

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 284-292

  Matsukawa, Yoshitaka ^a   Briceno, Martha ^a   Robertson, Ian M ^a  

^a United States of America   (United States)

Author keywords

Dislocation; Simulation; Transmission electron microscope

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; STACKING FAULTS;

DISLOCATION; IN-SITU STRAINING; IN-SITU TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; INTERACTION MECHANISMS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS COMPUTER SIMULATIONS; NUCLEAR MATERIAL; SIMULATION; STACKING FAULT TETRAHEDRON; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFECT CLUSTER; GEOMETRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STACKING FAULT TETRAHEDRON; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 61449125916     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: 10970029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.20681     Document Type: Article

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