transmission electron microscope. Incipient plasticity in the smaller samples is characterized
by the nucleation of few 1/2< 110>{110} dislocations while a larger number of line defects is
observed in larger nanocubes. Yield and flow stresses scattered stochastically above a
minimum value varying as the inverse of the sample size. The upper bound is given by the
reduced number of dislocation sources. Such size-dependent behaviour is justified by a …