Heterogeneous dislocation nucleation from surfaces and interfaces as governing plasticity mechanism in nanoscale metals

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 26, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 2803-2814

  Jennings, Andrew T ^a   Greer, Julia R ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Defects; Metal; Nanoscale

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION VOLUME; CONSTANT STRAIN RATE; COPPER PILLARS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISLOCATION NUCLEATION; FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE; IN-SITU TRANSMISSION; NANO SCALE; NANOSCALE METALS; PARTIAL DISLOCATIONS; PILLAR DIAMETERS; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; SIZE EFFECTS; SLOW STRAIN RATES; STRAIN RATE SENSITIVITY; SURFACES AND INTERFACES; UNIAXIAL COMPRESSION TESTS;

COMPRESSION TESTING; DEFECTS; DEFORMATION; EXPERIMENTS; IN SITU PROCESSING; METALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NUCLEATION; STRESS CONCENTRATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

STRAIN RATE;

EID: 82055169128     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: 20445326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2011.338     Document Type: Article

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