First principles modelling of dislocations in BCC iron

This work centers around employing magnetic tight binding to study defects in body centred cubic iron, a material of potentially great importance as a structural component in hydrogen fusion power plants. An existing d-band tight binding model was extended to include charge. The first task was to de...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Soin, Preetma Kaur
Other Authors: Horsfield, Andrew ; Sutton, Adrian
Published: Imperial College London 2012
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.579114