Inelastic and elastic mean free paths from FIB samples of metallic glasses

D T Schweiss1, Jinwoo Hwang, P M Voyles

  • 1Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin at Madison, WI 53706-1595, USA.

Ultramicroscopy
|November 17, 2012
PubMed

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