Contact fatigue of silicon

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1175-1184

  Bhowmick, Sanjit ^a   Meléndez Martínez, Juan José ^b   Lawn, Brian R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; CYCLIC LOADS; FATIGUE DAMAGE; INDENTATION; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

CONTACT FATIGUE; COPIOUS DEBRIS; CYCLIC CONTACT LOADING; MONOCRYSTALLINE SILICON; RING CRACKS;

SILICON;

EID: 42949095168     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2008.0149     Document Type: Article

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