Ageing of a microscopic sliding gold contact at low temperatures

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 14, 2011, Pages

  Gosvami, Nitya Nand ^a   Feldmann, Michael ^b   Peguiron, Joël ^c   Moseler, Michael ^c   Schirmeisen, André ^d   Bennewitz, Roland ^a  

^a INM LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEW MATERIALS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MECHANICS OF MATERIALS IWM   (Germany)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AU(111) SURFACES; DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIA; FRICTION MEASUREMENTS; FRICTIONAL BEHAVIOR; GOLD CONTACTS; GOLD JUNCTIONS; LOW FRICTION; LOW TEMPERATURES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NANO-METER-SCALE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SLIDING CONTACTS; STICK SLIP; WEAR DAMAGE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; FRICTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; TRIBOLOGY;

SLIP FORMING;

EID: 80053472689     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.144303     Document Type: Article

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