Nanoscale manipulation of the properties of solids at high pressure with relativistic heavy ions

Nature Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 793-797

  Lang, Maik ^a   Zhang, Fuxiang ^a   Zhang, Jiaming ^a   Wang, Jianwei ^a   Schuster, Beatrice ^b   Trautmann, Christina ^b   Neumann, Reinhard ^b   Becker, Udo ^a   Ewing, Rodney C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAVY IONS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ION BOMBARDMENT; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

HIGH PRESSURE AND HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGH-ENERGY ION IRRADIATION; HIGH-PRESSURE PHASE; NANOSCALE MANIPULATIONS; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; QUANTUM-MECHANICAL CALCULATION; RELATIVISTIC HEAVY IONS; VERY HIGH ENERGIES;

HIGH PRESSURE ENGINEERING;

EID: 70349319349     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2528     Document Type: Article

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