Direct Atomic Observation of Grain Boundary Sliding

Grain Boundary Sliding in Ice

It is well known that grain boundary processes intercrystdline sliding and grain boundary migration make an important contribution to high temperature deformation of polycrystalline materials, particularly for metals. More recently, these processes have been correlated with the atomic structure of the boundaries. Our goal is to study sliding and migration of ice boundaries, with respect to temp...

Grain boundary structures of atomic layer deposited

Grain boundary plays an important role in determining the physical properties and chemical stability of the materials. In particular, the structures of grain boundaries in atomic layer deposited TiN film may be one of the main factors to dominate the reliability and performance of ULSI devices with multilayer structure of Cu-based interconnects. In this work, the characteristics of grain bounda...

Direct observation of liquid-like behavior of a single Au grain boundary.

Behavior of matter at the nanoscale differs from that of the bulk due to confinement and surface effects. Here, we report a direct observation of liquid-like behavior of a single grain boundary formed by cold-welding Au nanoparticles, 40 nm in size, by mechanical manipulation in situ TEM. The grain boundary rotates almost freely due to the free surfaces and can rotate about 90 degrees. The grai...

Phenomenology and Mechanism of Grain Boundary Sliding in Zinc Bicrystals

Grain boundary sliding of copper in the rolling process

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