Nanosecond Melting and Recrystallization in Shock-Compressed Silicon

Stefan J Turneaure1, Surinder M Sharma1, Y M Gupta1,2

  • 1Institute for Shock Physics, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA.

Physical Review Letters
|October 13, 2018
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