Electronic nematicity is a phase of some crystalline solids in which electrons' collective properties, such as charge or spin ...

A research team from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has successfully used mechanical ...

The formation and evolution of dislocation cell structures (patterning) is one of the most important aspects of the deformation process in ductile metals 1,2,3,17,18,19,20. It is generally appreciated ...

The elastic modulus relates the applied stress to the strain it produces. In a material that obeys Hooke's Law, the initial uniaxial elastic response is linear with stress and strain coupled through ...

Microfabrication of bulk GaN crystal into single crystalline GaN microbridges. An optical photograph showing the bulk GaN ...

Engineers have long used stress-strain curves to uncover a host of material properties. The curves are created by plotting the results of tensile strength tests of material samples, putting stress ...

When a material experiences an applied uniaxial tensile stress, s, it displays a strain response, e. In the initial stage of strain, the response is linear in the stress and may be described by ...