Mechanical stabilities and nonlinear properties of monolayer Gallium sulfide under tension

Superlattices and Microstructures

Volumn 80, Issue , 2015, Pages 80-90

  Yang, Chuanghua ^a   Lu, Pengfei ^b   Huang, Wendeng ^a   Chen, Jun ^c  

^a SHAANXI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c Beijing Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics   (China)

Author keywords

First principles; Monolayer GaS; Nonlinear elastic response; Ultimate strain; Ultimate stress

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ELASTIC CONSTANTS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; GALLIUM; MECHANICAL STABILITY; MONOLAYERS; STRAIN; STRAIN ENERGY; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

CONTINUUM DESCRIPTION; ELASTIC STRAIN ENERGY; FIRST PRINCIPLES; NONLINEAR ELASTIC RESPONSE; NONLINEAR PROPERTIES; PRESSURE DERIVATIVES; ULTIMATE STRAIN; ULTIMATE STRESS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 84921664500     PISSN: 07496036     EISSN: 10963677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spmi.2014.10.019     Document Type: Article

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