Nanoindentation of single-crystalline gold thin films: Correlating hardness and the onset of plasticity

Acta Materialia

Volumn 56, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 3887-3899

  Dietiker, Marianne ^a   Nyilas, Ralph D ^a   Solenthaler, Christian ^a   Spolenak, Ralph ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gold thin films; Hardness; Nanoindentation; Plastic deformation; Single crystal

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELASTICITY; EXPERIMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HARDNESS; LITHOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC FILMS; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; METALLURGY; METALS; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; NANOINDENTATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; PLASTICITY; PLASTICS; SHEAR STRESS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; STRESSES; THICK FILMS; THIN FILMS;

AU(111) FILMS; FINITE ELEMENT (FE); GOLD THIN FILMS; MAXIMUM SHEAR (MS); MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS; METAL THIN FILMS; NANO-METER-SCALE; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE;

GOLD;

EID: 48449083835     PISSN: 13596454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2008.04.032     Document Type: Article

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