Elastic constants, Poisson ratios, and the elastic anisotropy of VN(001), (011), and (111) epitaxial layers grown by reactive magnetron sputter deposition

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 115, Issue 21, 2014, Pages

  Mei, A B ^a   Wilson, R B ^a   Li, D ^a   Cahill, David G ^a   Rockett, A ^a   Birch, J ^b   Hultman, L ^b   Greene, J E ^a,b   Petrov, I ^a,b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE DEVICES; ANISOTROPY; DEPOSITION; POISSON RATIO; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BULK CRYSTALS; ELASTIC ANISOTROPY; HIGH RESOLUTION; LONGITUDINAL SOUND; MASS DENSITIES; MGO SUBSTRATE; RECIPROCAL SPACE MAPS; SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE MEASUREMENTS;

ELASTIC CONSTANTS;

EID: 84902590750     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: 10897550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4881817     Document Type: Article

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