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Robert S. Averback

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Interim Head, Donald W. Hamer Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Office 1007 F. Seitz Materials Research Laboratory

Telephone 217-333-4302 Fax 217-333-2736

Mail Address Department of Materials Science and Engineering
1304 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801

averback@illinois.edu

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“Role of thermal spikes in energetic displacement cascades,” T. Diaz de la Rubia, R.S. Averback, R. Benedek and W. E. King, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 59, No. 17, p. 1930-3, (1987).

“Displacement Damage in Irradiated Metals and Semiconductors,” R.S. Averback and T. Diaz de la Rubia, Solid State Physics, vol 51, ed. H. Ehrenreich and F. Spaepen (Academic Press, 1998), p. 281.

“Coherent displacement of atoms during ion irradiation,” K. Nordlund, J. Keinonen, M. Ghaly, and R. S. Averback, Nature, 398, 49 (1999).

“Phase separation and dynamic patterning in Cu1-xCox films under ion irradiation,” P. Krasnochtchekov, R.S. Averback, and P. Bellon, Phys. Rev. B 72, 174102 (2005).

“Mechanisms of radiation-induced viscous flow: Role of point defects,” S.G. Mayr, Y. Ashkenazy, K. Albe , and R.S. Averback, Phys. Rev. Letts. 90, 055505, (2003).

“Crossover from superdiffusive to diffusive mixing in plastically deformed solids,” P. Bellon, R.S. Averback, S. Odunuga, Y. Li, P. Krasnochtchekov, A. Caro, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 110602 (2007).

“Atomic mechanisms controlling crystallization behaviour in metals at deep undercoolings,” Y. Ashkenazy and R.S. Averback, Europhys. Letts., 79, 26005, 2007.

 “Limits of hardness at the nanoscale,” N.Q. Vo, R.S. Averback, P. Bellon, and A. Caro, Phys. Rev. B. 78, 241402 (2008).

“Quantitative description of plastic deformation in nanocrystalline Cu: Dislocation glide versus grain boundary sliding,” N.Q. Vo, R.S. Averback, P. Bellon, S. Odunuga, and A. Caro Phys. Rev. B, 77, 134108 (2008).

“Stress induced in platinum thin films by low energy ion irradiation,” W. L. Chan, K. Zhou, V. Nhon, Y. Ashkenazy, D. G. Cahill, and R. S. Averback, Phys. Rev. B 77, 205405 (2008).

“Solidification of deeply undercooled single component metals,” Phys. Rev. Letts (in press), Wai-Lun Chan, Robert S. Averback, David G. Cahill, and Yinon Ashkenazy

“Molecular dynamics simulation of Intragranular Xe bubble re-solution in UO2,”
D. Schwen , M. Huang, R. S. Averback, P. Bellon, J. Nucl. Mater. (in press).