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The 1999 Material Research Society Fall Meeting took place in Boston Copley Plaza from November 26 to December 3. This was the first time that MRS has used the
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A Method is described for reconstructing the crystal habit from the observations of many random planar sections of known orientation. We have generated
This paper reviews lifetime prediction methodologies for high-temperature structural ceramics. The methodologies consider failure from subcritical crack growth
The method of determining the surface roughness of a transparent solid interface by fitting spectrophotometric transmittance and/or reflectance data with a
N D. Leifer, A Colon, K Martocci, S G. Greenbaum, Faisal Alamgir, T B. Reddy, N R. Gleason, R A. Leising, E S. Takeuchi
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A simple expression is derived relating fracture surface energy to easily measured material properties, i.e., the elastic Young's modulus and the equilibrium
Y E. Lee, Mark D. Vaudin, Peter K. Schenck, B Hockey
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Products based upon nanotechnology represent a potential market for revolutionary new materials, particularly those where one or more dimension is less than 50
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The general expression relating Raman scattering intensity to incident and scattered polarization directions is modified to account for an experimental
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Three-dimensional interfacial networks in polycrystalline solids are topologically and crystallographically complex. With a few notable exceptions, most of what