1. Flexure Strength and Failure Probability of Silicon Nanowires Open Access Author: Kirkpatrick, Rebecca Title: Flexure Strength and Failure Probability of Silicon Nanowires Graduate Program: Materials Science and Engineering Keywords: siliconmechanical characterizationnanowirebend testingWeibull statistics File: Download Kirkpatrick_Doctoral_Dissertation_2010.pdf Committee Members: Christopher Muhlstein, Dissertation Advisor/Co-AdvisorChristopher L Muhlstein, Committee Chair/Co-ChairJoan Marie Redwing, Committee MemberJames Hansell Adair, Committee MemberSrinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member