Size-induced elastic stiffening of ZnO nanostructures: Skin-depth energy pinning

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 13, 2009, Pages

  Liu, X J ^a   Li, J W ^a   Zhou, Z F ^a   Yang, L W ^a   Ma, Z S ^a   Xie, G F ^a   Pan, Y ^a   Sun, Chang Q ^a,b  

^a XIANGTAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOND ENERGIES; ENERGY DOMAINS; FEATURE SIZES; LOCAL STRAINS; PER UNIT VOLUMES; SIZE EFFECTS; SKIN DEPTHS; ZNO NANOSTRUCTURES;

ELASTIC MODULI; SEMICONDUCTING ZINC COMPOUNDS; SKIN; ZINC OXIDE;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 64149110850     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3109786     Document Type: Article

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