Defective twin boundaries in nanotwinned metals

Nature Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 697-702

  Morris Wang, Y ^a   Sansoz, Frederic ^b   Lagrange, Thomas ^a   Ott, Ryan T ^c   Marian, Jaime ^a   Barbee, Troy W ^a   Hamza, Alex V ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Vermont   (United States)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AS-GROWN; COHERENT TWIN; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR; NANOTWINNED COPPER; NANOTWINNED METALS; PARTIAL DISLOCATIONS; TWIN BOUNDARIES;

COPPER;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 84880843919     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3646     Document Type: Article

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