Nanoscale gold pillars strengthened through dislocation starvation

作者: Julia R. Greer , William D. Nix

DOI: 10.1103/PHYSREVB.73.245410

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摘要: It has been known for more than half a century that crystals can be made stronger by introducing defects into them, ie, by strain-hardening. As the number of defects increases, their movement and multiplication is impeded, thus strengthening the material. In the present work we show hardening by dislocation starvation, a fundamentally different strengthening mechanism based on the elimination of defects from the crystal. We demonstrate that submicrometer sized gold crystals can be 50 times stronger than their bulk counterparts due …

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