Direct observation of local atomic order in a metallic glass

Nature Materials

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 28-33

  Hirata, Akihiko ^a   Guan, Pengfei ^a   Fujita, Takeshi ^a   Hirotsu, Yoshihiko ^b   Inoue, Akihisa ^c   Yavari, Alain Reza ^a,d   Sakurai, Toshio ^c   Chen, Mingwei ^a,c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMS; GLASS; METALS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

AB INITIO MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; ATOMIC CONFIGURATION; DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; DISORDERED MATERIALS; LOCAL ATOMIC STRUCTURES; NANOBEAM ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; SPECTROSCOPIC METHOD; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION;

METALLIC GLASS;

EID: 78650280205     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2897     Document Type: Article

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