Ab initio modeling of dislocation core properties in metals and semiconductors

D Rodney, L Ventelon, E Clouet, L Pizzagalli… - Acta Materialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Dislocation cores, the regions in the immediate vicinity of dislocation lines, control a number
of properties such as dislocation mobility, cross-slip and short-range interactions with other …

Size dependence of nanostructures: Impact of bond order deficiency

CQ Sun - Progress in solid state chemistry, 2007 - Elsevier
This report deals with the mechanism behind the unusual behavior of nanostructures in
mechanical strength, thermal stability, acoustics (lattice dynamics), photonics, electronics …

Observation of giant diffusivity along dislocation cores

M Legros, G Dehm, E Arzt, TJ Balk - Science, 2008 - science.org
Diffusion of atoms in a crystalline lattice is a thermally activated process that can be strongly
accelerated by defects such as grain boundaries or dislocations. When carried by …

Thermo-mechanical behavior of low-dimensional systems: The local bond average approach

CQ Sun - Progress in Materials Science, 2009 - Elsevier
With the miniaturization of a solid, effects of surface strain and quantum trapping become
increasingly important in determining its properties. As a result, low-dimensional materials …

Role of yttrium in activation of< c+ a> slip in magnesium: An atomistic approach

KH Kim, JB Jeon, NJ Kim, BJ Lee - Scripta Materialia, 2015 - Elsevier
The effect of Y addition on the slip behavior of an edge dislocation on basal, prismatic and
second-order pyramidal slip planes of Mg has been investigated using a molecular …

Prediction of dislocation cores in aluminum from density functional theory

C Woodward, DR Trinkle, LG Hector Jr, DL Olmsted - Physical review letters, 2008 - APS
The strain field of isolated screw and edge dislocation cores in aluminum are calculated
using density-functional theory and a flexible boundary condition method. Nye tensor …

Shear deformation, ideal strength, and stacking fault formation of fcc metals: A density-functional study of Al and Cu

M Jahnátek, J Hafner, M Krajčí - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2009 - APS
Ab initio density-functional calculations have been used to study the response of two face-
centered-cubic metals (Al and Cu) to shearing parallel to the close-packed (111) planes …

Shock responses of nanoporous aluminum by molecular dynamics simulations

M Xiang, J Cui, Y Yang, Y Liao, K Wang, Y Chen… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
We present systematic investigations examining the shock responses of nanoporous
aluminum (np-Al) by nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. The dislocation …

Density functional theory calculations of generalized stacking fault energy surfaces for eight face-centered cubic transition metals

Y Su, S Xu, IJ Beyerlein - Journal of Applied Physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, we use density functional theory to calculate the entire generalized stacking
fault energy (GSFE) surface for eight transition metals with a face-centered cubic structure …

Influence of the stacking fault energy surface on partial dislocations in fcc metals with a three-dimensional phase field dislocations dynamics model

A Hunter, IJ Beyerlein, TC Germann… - Physical Review B …, 2011 - APS
We present simulations of the dissociation of perfect dislocations into extended partial
dislocations in aluminum, palladium, and nickel using a phase field dislocation dynamics …