An electric current spike linked to nanoscale plasticity

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 287-291

  Nowak, Roman ^a,b   Chrobak, Dariusz ^a,c   Nagao, Shijo ^a   Vodnick, David ^d   Berg, Michael ^d   Tukiainen, Antti ^e   Pessa, Markus ^e  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^d Bruker Corporation   (United States)

^e TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ELASTOPLASTICITY; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; NANOINDENTATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PLASTICITY; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; ELASTIC-PLASTIC TRANSITION; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS; MECHANICAL RESPONSE; NANO-SCALE DEFORMATION; NANO-SCALE PLASTICITY; NANOINDENTATION EXPERIMENTS; SEMICONDUCTOR CONDUCTIVITY;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

GALLIUM ARSENIDE; GALLIUM; NANOMATERIAL; ORGANOARSENIC DERIVATIVE;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITION; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; YOUNG MODULUS;

ARSENICALS; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GALLIUM; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 67049098854     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2009.49     Document Type: Article

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