Schematic of Grain Boundaries in a Polycrystalline Gold Thin Film (IMAGE)

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Schematic of Grain Boundaries in a Polycrystalline Gold Thin Film

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An illustration of grain boundary locations (points where lines intersect) in a polycrystalline gold thin film. The zoomed-in view shows how a melt front created at these boundaries propagates into the grains after the film is excited with an optical laser.

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Brookhaven National Laboratory

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