Strength of metals at the Fermi length scale

Physica Status Solidi - Rapid Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 99-101

  Armstrong, Jason N ^a   Hua, Susan Z ^a   Chopra, Harsh Deep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscope; Fermi length scale; Sharvin length scale; Surface energy; Yield strength

Indexed keywords

APPLIED FORCES; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPES; BOND STIFFENING; BULK SINGLE CRYSTALS; BULK VALUE; CONTINUOUS APPROACH; FERMI WAVELENGTH; FOUR-ORDER; LENGTH SCALE; SHARVIN LENGTH SCALE; SIZE-DEPENDENCE; SURFACE ENERGIES; THEORETICAL VALUES;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

YIELD STRESS;

EID: 84857573946     PISSN: 18626254     EISSN: 18626270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssr.201105541     Document Type: Article

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