Local elastic properties of a metallic glass

Nature Materials

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 439-442

  Wagner, Hannes ^a   Bedorf, Dennis ^a   Küchemann, Stefan ^a   Schwabe, Moritz ^a   Zhang, Bo ^a   Arnold, Walter ^a,b   Samwer, Konrad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; GLASS; INDENTATION; METALLIC GLASS; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; POTENTIAL ENERGY;

ATOMIC FORCE ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLINE COUNTERPART; INDENTATION MODULUS; LOCAL ELASTIC PROPERTIES; LONG RANGE ORDERS; NONCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; POLYCRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE;

ATOMS;

EID: 79957447074     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3024     Document Type: Article

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