The roles of grain boundary and interfacial energies in the grain growth of nanocomposite films

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Hu, X J ^a,b   Shen, Y G ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS FILMS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES; MICROSTRUCTURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NANOCOMPOSITES; PHASE INTERFACES;

BOUNDARY ENERGIES; ENERGY DIFFERENCES; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; GRAIN SIZES; GROWTH EVOLUTIONS; LOG NORMALS; MATRIXES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; NANO-COMPOSITE FILMS; NANO-CRYSTALLINE;

GRAIN GROWTH;

EID: 62149146375     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3089866     Document Type: Article

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