Electronic origin of anomalously high shear modulus and intrinsic brittleness of fcc Ir

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Kamran, Sami ^a   Chen, Kuiying ^b   Chen, Liang ^a   Zhao, Linruo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLENESS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELASTIC CONSTANTS; ELASTIC MODULI; FRACTURE MECHANICS; PLASTICITY;

AB-INITIO; BOND ORDERS; BOND STRENGTHS; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL; ELECTRONIC ORIGINS; FACE-CENTRED CUBIC; FCC METALS; HIGH SHEARS; SHEAR MODULUS; VALENCE ELECTRONS;

IRIDIUM;

EID: 62249198307     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/20/8/085221     Document Type: Article

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