Atomistic Study of Crack-Tip Cleavage to Dislocation Emission Transition in Silicon Single Crystals

At low temperatures silicon is a brittle material that shatters catastrophically, whereas at elevated temperatures, the behavior of silicon changes drastically over a narrow temperature range and suddenly becomes ductile. This brittle-to-ductile transition has been observed in experimental studies,...

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Main Authors: Sen, Dipanjan (Contributor), Thaulow, Christian (Contributor), Schieffer, Stella V. (Contributor), Cohen, Alan (Contributor), Buehler, Markus J (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics (Contributor), Buehler, Markus J. (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: American Physical Society, 2011-01-21T14:35:13Z.
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