Role of the defect core in energetics of vacancies

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 465, Issue 2110, 2009, Pages 3239-3266

  Gavini, Vikram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aluminium; Defect core; Electronic structure; Quasi continuum; Vacancies

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; DEFORMATION; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; STRAIN; VACANCIES;

ALUMINIUM; CORE ENERGY; CORE STRUCTURE; DEFECT CORE; DISPLACEMENT FIELD; DYNAMIC FAILURES; ELASTIC FIELDS; ELASTIC INTERACTIONS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS; FORMATION ENERGIES; IN-CORE; MACROSCOPIC DEFORMATIONS; MACROSCOPIC SCALE; QUASI-CONTINUUM; RELAXATION ENERGIES; SHARP CONTRAST; UNIVERSAL CURVE; VOLUMETRIC DEFORMATION; VOLUMETRIC STRAIN;

DEFECT STRUCTURES;

EID: 70349954892     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2009.0136     Document Type: Article

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