Microtribology friction measurements on microtextured silicon

Tribology - Materials, Surfaces and Interfaces

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 165-174

  Winkless, L ^a   Martinot, E ^a   Gee, M G ^a   Cuenat, A ^a  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Friction; Microtribology; Patterned; Textured surfaces

Indexed keywords

CONTACT CONDITIONS; DRY TESTS; FLUID INTERACTIONS; FRICTION COEFFICIENTS; FRICTION MEASUREMENTS; FRICTION VALUES; HIGH-RESOLUTION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; HIGHER LOADS; LOW-TO-HIGH; MICROPATTERNED; MICROTRIBOLOGY; PATTERNED; PATTERNED SILICON; PATTERNED SURFACE; SCRATCH TEST; SILICON SAMPLES; SILICON SURFACES; TEXTURED SURFACE;

DEIONIZED WATER; EXPERIMENTS; HIGH RESOLUTION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LIQUIDS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PROBES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRIBOLOGY;

FRICTION;

EID: 77749305235     PISSN: 17515831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/175158310X481691     Document Type: Conference Paper

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