Oxidation induced softening in Al nanowires

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Sen, Fatih G ^a   Qi, Yue ^b   Van Duin, Adri C T ^c   Alpas, Ahmet T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^c The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AL THIN FILMS; AMORPHOUS OXIDE SHELL; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; LOW DENSITY; LOW YOUNG'S MODULUS; METALLIC NANOWIRES; MODULUS VALUES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NANO-METER-SCALE; SIZE DEPENDENCE; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

ELASTIC MODULI; NANOWIRES;

ALUMINUM;

EID: 84874066795     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4790181     Document Type: Article

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