Deconfinement leads to changes in the nanoscale plasticity of silicon

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 480-484

  Chrobak, Dariusz ^a,b   Tymiak, Natalia ^a   Beaber, Aaron ^c   Ugurlu, Ozan ^c   Gerberich, William W ^c   Nowak, Roman ^a,d  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

^d NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTOPLASTICITY; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOPARTICLES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PLASTICITY; SHAPE-MEMORY ALLOY; SILICON;

COMPRESSION EXPERIMENTS; DECONFINEMENT; ELASTIC-PLASTIC TRANSITION; INCIPIENT PLASTICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NANO-SCALE PLASTICITY; SILICON CRYSTAL; SILICON NANOPARTICLES;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

NANOPARTICLE; SILICON;

ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMPRESSION; CRYSTAL; ELECTRONICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

EID: 79961203164     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2011.118     Document Type: Article

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