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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 107, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3277053
Keywords
deformation; II-VI semiconductors; nanomechanics; nanostructured materials; size effect; solid-state phase transformations; space groups; statistical mechanics; tensile strength; wide band gap semiconductors; Young's modulus; zinc compounds
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [10772012, 10732090, 10772181, 10721202]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) [KJCX2-YW-M04]
- National Basic Research Program of China [2007CB814803]
- U.S. NSF [CMS9984298]
- KOSEF [R31-2008-000-10083-0]
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The deformation of [0001]-oriented ZnO nanorods with hexagonal cross sections under uniaxial tensile loading is analyzed through molecular statistical thermodynamics (MST) simulations. The focus is on the size dependence of mechanical behavior in ZnO nanorods with diameters ranging from 1.95 to 17.5 nm. An irreversible phase transformation from the wurtzite (P6(3)mc space group) structure to a tetragonal structure (P4(2)/mnm space group) occurs during the tensile loading process. Young's modulus before the transformation demonstrates a size dependence consistent with what is observed in experiments. A stronger size dependence of response is seen after the transformation and is attributed to the polycrystalline nature of the transformed structure. A comparison of the MST and molecular dynamics (MD) methods shows that MST is 60 times faster than MD and yields results consistent with the results of MD.
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